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...your pocketbook is low and you are lost for something to do, step around to 14 Plympton Street tonight after supper about 7:30 o'clock, where fame and fortune await you at the other end of a successful six weeks' competition for the Editorial or Business Boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPETITIONS OPEN TONIGHT | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

...mother), about Jersey City (a dreary spot), about collars (oldfashioned, stiff ones), about grammar (his is bad). Last week, with a loud, red face, he got dramatic about New Jersey's Governor Edison. For the Governor had signed a bill that hit Hague where it hurt most-the pocketbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Lightning by Edison | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...before the assembly: Can free search after truth be continued during the present national emergency? Can the rights of free criticism, acess to any and every book, and student self-government to continued? Is educational opportunity to be extended to everyone, regardless of race, color, creed, or pocketbook? Can the campus be free from intolerance and bigotry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT RIGHTS TO BE EMPHASIZED IN NATIONAL YOUTH MEETING HERE | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

...gathered the back of the skirts in her right hand, swirling them forward, so the ruffled lining and frilled silk petticoat showed above her ankles and you could see ten inches of her high-heeled buttoned shoes. She held her pocketbook in her left hand but managed to pick up just a pinch of skirt above her knee with the thumb and the forefinger. Holding her skirts that way molded her thighs and showed every beautiful curve of her figure. As she stepped over the curb to the cobblestones, she raised her eyes to the house next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Natural Switch | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...country, Director Taylor laid plans for the biggest art shindig the U. S. had ever seen. Its purposes: 1) to get the U. S. public to buy more art; 2) to get artists to sell their work at prices within reach of the average man's pocketbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Week of Weeks | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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