Word: pennyworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
Zealot. In Lynn, Mass., Richard Deland, who had been sentenced to jail and then put on probation for breaking into Pennyworth's Clothing Store, was caught by police next day breaking into Pennyworth's Clothing Store...
...recalled, "and I should have jumped at it if I could have obtained ?14, which was the price of a second-hand oboe seventy years ago. For want of that sum I was lost to woodwind forever and had to adopt a profession in which the equipment was 6 pennyworth of stationery...
...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...