Word: snorter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Short Snorter Service...
...recently acquired in currency change a "Short Snorter" (TIME, Aug. 31, 1942) dollar bill which I feel sure was passed inadvertently. . . . This letter reprinted in TIME would seem to offer the best potential medium of reaching the member involved before his predicament results in financial embarrassment...
Then Vanderkloot asked: "Are you a short-snorter, sir?" The rules of that august fraternity provide that if a short-snorter is unable to produce his card immediately, he must give a dollar bill to all short-snorters present. Leland Stowe's Moscow interview with the two flyers revealed that Churchill then & there made up a new rule-that he had five minutes to produce his card. He distressed Sawyers by pawing through his luggage, finally found the dollar bill inscribed with the term "short-snorter" and the date of his induction into the fraternity of transocean flyers...