Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit businessman, middle-aged and raring for a night on the town, dropped his room key at the desk of the Hotel Continental in Paris' Rue de Castiglione. In his mailbox, as in those of hundreds of other Americans in Paris last week, was a letter. "The enclosed wallet-size 'protection card,' " it said, "comes to you with the compliments of the American Hospital of Paris, which for nearly half a century has been a feature of American life in this city . . . The hospital is yours...
...ACCIDENT. After a blank for his name & address: Citoyen américain, je désire être transporté d'urgence à I'hôpital américain de Paris. The visitor filled in his name and hotel address, tucked the card into his wallet, and stepped briskly out into the warm, exciting Paris night to take his chances with wine, women and the world's wildest motorists. The Detroiter, and thousands like him, felt a bit more secure just for having the card...
...John Q. Public clutched indignantly at his thinner-after-November wallet. Delaware's Senator John James Williams had prodded into public view...
...crooks who picked Briggs up knocked him out as soon as he entered the car and took his wallet which contained 25 dollars...
...either sex, young or old, of any complexion, anywhere in America to correspond with and also exchange with different kinds of African goods to American goods as gift. We can offer any of these Africans goods as gift and exchange to American goods. Carved ebonys of any style. African wallet made of alligator or leopard skin or any animal skin, Ladies and gents hand bag made of colourful animal skin, Native cloth which can be used for coat or any other dress weared by Original "YORUBAS," carved calabashes for dressing parlour or museum or dancing hall, Sandals and Slippers made...