Word: taker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ticket Taker...
Cripps called his new gadget a "special once-for-all levy." But the conservative Daily Telegraph assailed it as "class legislation of the worst type. ... A budget professedly designed to stimulate incentive studiously ignores the risk-taker." Indignant investors were reminded that when Sir Robert Peel proposed an income tax in 1842 he had said: "I think it just to limit the duration to three years...
...test, the patient studies each set of eight photographs, and picks out the two faces that seem "most attractive" and the two that seem "most repellent." The test-taker is asked to run through the strange, leering faces again & again, perhaps as often as ten times. His choices, blocked in on a complicated scorecard like a crossword puzzle blank, are revealing to the psychiatrist. The filled-in squares on the scorecard can be translated into signs of "conflict" in the four fundamental fields of sexuality, emotional control, "ego structure" (estimate and control of self) and "object relationship" (adjustment to reality...
...public event in Mexico can hardly be called official until there has been a scuffle between the camera-toting Casasolas. Members of Mexico's royal family of photography have been fighting among themselves ever since Grandfather Agustín turned picture-taker 70 years ago. Says smiling Grandmother Doña Refugio: "My husband Agustín taught them to fight for their pictures, and that's the way it should be. And anyway, we are all united in the big projects...
...parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London's "Bow Street runners" to pursue criminals- the catch being that the criminal had to be reported before he got out of sight. The professional "thief taker" was not a public official but a shady individual who made a business of collecting rewards...