Word: wallets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...births are in families on relief, or living on a wage inadequate to provide for a growing family. Because doctors are forbidden by law to give contraceptive advice thousands of families through sheer innocence multiply more rapidly than they should for a mother's health or a breadwinner's wallet. Slum victims in or out of the city need medical advice as much as privileged residential dwellers. But in Boston already seven birth control clinics have been closed, while people of higher incomes can casually make a doctor's appointment behind closed doors for the same information deprived...
...whose shoe the string had stuck. In St. Paul, officers of the Moose Lodge learned their safe had been stolen when police returned it. In Cleveland, Richard Pearse slept undisturbed in his car while thieves took three wheels and a spare, removed his wrist watch from his arm, one wallet from the inside of his coat, another from his hip pocket. In Denver, burglars left a note in Edward V. Dunklee's house: "Sir: Your beer is putrid and your cigars are terrible...
Buying war bonds was patriotic but dull for months on end, a duty of the stuffiest kind, which wounded one's wallet at the same time it depressed the spirit. Then the Treasury soft-pedaled the grim reminders of danger, need and duty, and called in Hollywood and Broadway. As one man the pressagents ordered: "Cheesecake...
Since the Navy's appropriation of the Union, she has virtually been driven from pillar to post. Eating is her greatest problem. Fastidious tastes, she found, must be sacrificed if her wallet is not thickly interlined
Died. Ernest Bramah Smith (pen name: Ernest Bramah), 74, British writer of detective fiction (The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed...