Search Details

Word: wallet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...basic character. . . . One man started a fight with a guard, knocked him down and thereby risked being shot." The somnambulant men fell down stairs, got burns, cuts, bruises. One walked many miles cross-country looking for his uncle (his father was dead). One stole his best friend's wallet. They dreamed of snakes, of being chased by men with knives or by rabid dogs. Some dreamed that their fathers saved them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lady Macbeth's Children | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...year-old Negro confessed to holding up the laundry of Hyman Ostrow seven times since 1939, explained, "He was a soft touch." Happy Landings. In Cleveland, Restaurateur Joseph Sinjur tossed out a drunk, discovered too late that helpful customers had innocently thrust on the drunk a fallen wallet containing $200 - all Sinjur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Well, we're serving fruit and nuts and giving codles of free gifts up in Chase C-36 on Christmas Eve. Just bring your wallet and a se--a beautiful blonde and knock three times. We'll know Joe sent you. Oh yes, send her in second so the wrong person doesn't got clubbed to death...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: Lucky Bag-- | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

...Vancouver, Wash., a motorist smashed into one Clarence Williams, broke his leg, pulled up a few feet ahead, ran back, lifted Williams' wallet, drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1944 | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next