Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back on May 3, while seated at the kitchen table, having a midnight snack, I took out my wallet, gave my wife her allowance and noted that I had $50 remaining therein. Came the dawn, and on getting dressed, I was missing one wallet. In a cold sweat my wife and I searched the house; for two solid weeks we searched the house, with no luck. I bought a new wallet, went through all the red tape of new operator's licenses, pass cards...
...couldn't wait; I rushed out. Reaching home, I unstrapped the contraption that serves as a substitute for my left leg since I had an argument with a germ several years ago and lost, and there in the bottom of the socket, wedged tight, was the wallet...
...regimes," said an Italian lawyer last week, "was mitigated in two ways. One was regicide. The other was amnesty-the sovereign's gift of grace. We still have amnesty-so, for the next six months, don't leave your car unattended, and keep your hand on your wallet." Under the fourth general amnesty since 1945, signed into law by President Giovanni Gronchi last week, some 15,000 convicted criminals-and perhaps as many as 100,000 offenders still unsentenced-will walk scot-free out of Italy's jails. Unlike a pardon, which wipes out the penalty...
...Winston went to the College of the City of New York ('20) and Fordham Law School, raised a $50,000 stake in the export-import business, shrewdly started horse trading in real estate. In the Depression Winston confidently bought large blocks of land on city fringes, watched his wallet grow fat as the population shifted to the suburbs...
...funds claim that this big "front-end load" is an incentive to steady saving, but some funds think that such juicy commissions are completely unjustified. Says John Dalenz, vice president of Calvin Bullock, Ltd.: "Why not give those salesmen a blackjack and let them take your entire wallet...