Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan store advertised the "bottoms-up tumbler," a 2-oz. glass with a nude female figurine across its base. It was guaranteed to tip over immediately if placed on a flat surface. Said the ad: "You can't put it down until you drink it down-and the result is, of course, gaiety galore...
Asked if he thought the Russian peasant was in poverty today, Steinbeck retorted, "Poor? Conditions are no different from any other sector. Take a tip down south in our own country if it's poverty you're looking...
...Over redcaps' protests, eastern railway stations upped the fee for each bag from 10? to 15?. The redcaps figured that the higher the fee (all of which goes to the terminal), the smaller the tip...
...Wake tip, America...
...Hush (Jack Dempsey) and Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) had won $13,500 and $17,590 respectively. Soon the Hush money had fact-finding listeners in block-long queues at the Los Angeles Public Library; in Manhattan's Times Square, tipsters hawked greensheets (the not-so-hot tip: Evangeline Booth) at $1. But nobody guessed. Miss Hush dropped more hints...