Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret Service. As soon as Luci and Pat had stowed their luggage at home, they set off for the supermarket to load up on frozen pizzas, dill pickles, potato chips and other staples for the pantry. Pat whistled in disbelief when the checker rang up the inflationary tab...
...hard to understand and that Lasky vehemently denies. But there is no question of who is handling the bills now. The current angel is British Press Lord Cecil King, whose only stipulation is that he have no editorial control, even though he has agreed to pick up the tab through...
...Higginson overextended itself. Between 1928 and 1932, it underwrote many millions of dollars worth of Swedish Swindler Ivar Kreuger's efforts to corner the international matchmaking market. After Kreuger's depredations were disclosed, Lee Higginson, among others, was stuck with the tab...
...reported that he was down to 18 inches of mail a day, "and there's very little junk in it." Even so, some publicity men have persisted. When Morton sent them bills as promised, Delta Airlines paid up. But when Publicist John Grouse refused, Morton took his $31 tab to small-claims court. There, to almost everyone's surprise, Judge Martin Shachat rejected Grouse's plea of accepted and traditional practice, ordered him to pay Morton's bill on the grounds that the letter had clearly and quite legitimately redefined that practice. Morton, of course...
...spewed forth once again so that all the children could have a good wallow. "The silliest thing I ever saw," exclaimed one horrified mother. But not all agreed. "A blast-out of sight. I wish it could happen every day," said one teenager. It probably won't. The tab for the three-day Happening, with the cost of filming, was nearly $30,000-a fairly inflationary sum to pay for such...