Word: tippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come" in at 4 in the morning, drink a glass of milk, get out of bed at ten and not come home again until 4. He got thinner and thinner. One night he woke me up and started to tell me that he'd picked up a tip in a bar that he thought would break that whole thing. But I guess I fell asleep and didn't hear...
...space-grabbers ("One of the great showmen of all time is a kindly, pickle-faced fight promoter named Mike Jacobs . . . rates with Barnum, Ziegfeld and Roxy") or endorses the free entertainment of watching Manhattan's public markets and Broadway's fancydancing billboards. He advises customers not to tip his waiters too much, warns "If you are looking for naked tootsies, the Horseshoe is not your cup of tea" (but slyly suggests that the girls are more tempting the way they're dressed). He recommends the Italian war movie Open City and ponders the perfume business...
Note of Cheer. In his friendliest, let's-be-reasonable manner, "Hump" Mitchell turned the delegation down. Removal of wage control, he said, would breach the Government's anti-inflation barrier. Hump shifted his spectacles to his nose's tip, wagged a warning forefinger: "If you give effect to this [strike] policy, you will be endangering the organizations you represent." On that note the interview ended...
...readers will not have to leaf far to discover that it is about the same hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...
This newcomer to Wall Street tip sheets was far from being a newcomer to the chemical field. Started by two German chemists, Charles Pfizer and his brother-in-law Charles Erhart, in 1849, the company soon got a reputation for producing high quality chemicals. But it was still small in 1923, when it began producing citric acid by a new process, the vegetative fermentation of sugar. Up till then citric acid, the most widely used organic acid in the food and beverage field, was produced chiefly in Europe from lemon and lime juice. With its new process, Pfizer broke...