Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson. The New Normalcy is not only the process of ensuring prosperity. It is learning to live with what is already here. The Depression-time rarity, the $20 bill engraved with the thin-lipped countenance of Andrew Jackson, has come to be at home in everybody's wallet. In a tangible way, while soothsayers write of a fearful and cautious population, the $20 bill has produced a new "Age of Jackson" and a new age of confidence. And the very familiarity of long green seems to have eased the pursuit of the dollar that Europeans firmly believe...
...Embassy-sometimes fondly called "the Boodle Man." The traveler is handed an envelope containing the boodle: as much as $500 in French francs. From then on, the visitor is on his own, needs only to check in with the embassy's boodle man to replenish his wallet. In 1955 in Paris alone, some 700 Junketeers availed themselves of this service, to the tune of $100,000; in 1956, the number dropped to 400, the amount...
...student may apply for work through the Office, located in Weld Hall. The regular part-time jobs within the University, however, are assigned through a priority list, based on financial need. The student without any real financial need but with a temporarily empty wallet is the one most likely to hit upon the unusual jobs, although even on the priority list such other considerations as physical condition, special talents, previous experience, and class schedule do play a small part...
...early years less on the level than under the rose. At any rate, as the camera finds him, Sanders is enthusiastically engaged in selling his own brother to the secret police in return for a passage to America. Arrived in New York, he steals a rich man's wallet from the tramp (Yvonne de Carlo) who stole it first, finds a draft for $20,000 tucked inside. Forging an indorsement, he takes a plunge in the stock market, clears $200,000 in a matter of hours, pays for the bad check with a good one. And so he finds...
Rockafellar told the CRIMSON that his assailants threw him to the ground and kicked and beat him. He said that he was robbed of a wrist-watch and a wallet which contained no money...