Word: tippers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent money like a sailor just ashore. With an expense account of about $100,000 a year, he was the town's most avid check-snatcher and tipper, its most unflagging patron of flower shops and buyer of sparkling burgundy (which he called "bubble ink"). His pinkish-blond hair was as much a trademark as his open-throat shirt, his fetish against wearing hats, ties or overcoats. "I'm a publicity hound," he told Cleveland sportwriters when he took over the Indians. And ex-Marine Bill Veeck, who had lost a leg as a result of combat injuries...
...Hair of 'is 'ead." The notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles...
Bread. Shipmates had noted that Panyushkin, who suffers from stomach trouble, had carried his own black bread and Russian white wine, that he had caviar with his dinner and that he was a good tipper (amounts unspecified). When newsmen got through with him, Ambassador Panyushkin was taken in charge by a State Department representative, the Russian Consul General and six Soviet attach...
...pickings were better before and during the war, almost all agreed. Now, they said, the good tipper is the exception. "I've been driving a back around the Square for almost twenty years," one veteran taxi-driver reported. "Before, the war, all the boys were generous with their tips. Now you either get little or nuthin...
...letter of the law as Owen Josephus Roberts, the resigned Justice he succeeds. When the right and left divisions of the Court are not turned arsy-versy, as they frequently have been in recent years, the new Justice may find himself (as Roberts frequently did) the scale-tipper...