Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Wilmington, Mass., one Joseph Wharton, 79, paused to pick up a nickel dropped by a stranger in a bank, had his life savings ($950) whisked from his hip pocket while he bent over.
"Next!" say the barbers. "What next?" ask their clients, amazed at the number of things an up-to-date barber can do to willing subjects-haircuts, shaves, shampoos, massages, tonics, vibrations, bobs, curls, waves, electric treatments.
"Write the name of the man you suspect on this dotted line," said the desk sergeant. Puzzled by the interpreter's translation, Petros wrote his own name, went home. There a police officer met him, took him to jail, locked him up for the night.
UP TO Now-Alfred Emanuel Smith-Viking ($5).
At Albany. "I was unable to escape the fear of fire in the hotel on my first night away from home in five years. I persuaded Tom Caughlan to stay up playing pinochle with me until five o'clock in the morning, when we took turns at sleep for...