Word: pocketbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene. Bonds were sold by tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes and lunch-wagons, in movies, theaters and stadiums, over the radio all day and all night, they were...
Taxes are another drain. Unlike every important European opera house, the Met has no claim on the Government pocketbook. Instead it pays $145,000 in real-estate taxes. If these taxes were lifted, a 5% increase in box-office revenue would be enough to put Manhattan's creaky opera company into the black. As it is, the Metropolitan's bookkeepers may well take what comfort they can from the practical philosophy of the Met's first board chairman, James A. Roosevelt (uncle of Roosevelt I). Said he: "We never expected that it would pay. No opera house...
Trades. In Brooklyn, Hyman Crupnick, charged with breaking into an apartment, stealing a pocketbook, faced a life term as an habitual offender if convicted. In the pocketbook: 2?. In Denver, a burglar broke open a piggy bank, found a paltry 15?, lost his temper, threw 24 eggs against the walls and ceiling...
Teams. In Washington, a youth snatched a woman's pocketbook, made a lateral pass to a cyclist on the street, and both escaped. In Chinook, Mont., a big and a little dog went visiting back porches. The big dog knocked the milk bottles over, the little dog nipped out the bottle caps, both drank...
...prophecies in this anthology range from bright to dark, from inspired vision to inspired foresight. There are prophecies for every pocketbook, every human hope, dream, fear. The most magnificent prophets are still the Jews. This book contains much of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Revelation complete. Eighty pages are devoted to modish Michael Nostradamus, whose double-talk may or may not predict Hess's flight, Hitler's downfall. St. Odile predicts the end of the Germans-unless she is predicting the end of the Mohammedans, a more pressing danger in the 7th Century. "America's greatest...