Word: wallets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Travelers who visit the Balkans without losing a watch or wallet are regarded by Western Europeans as exceptions, by the Balkan peoples as geniuses. Balkan gentlemen even joke about the dexterity of their own restless fingers...
They got together in a lawyer's office and drew up the papers. Mr. Hudler was about to sign when Losey's Indianapolis lawyer pulled out a fat wallet, selected two crisp $5,000 bills as a down payment, planked them on the table. In a town like Noblesville you don't close a deal with $5,000 banknotes-you offer a certified check. Mr. Hudler thought it over awhile. Then he said: "I don't believe I'll sell my press...
Lord Woolton is a Tory and the left-wing press answered the Minister of Food by headlining "WOOLTON MUST GO!" The tabloid Daily Mirror attacked the Government by sending its columnist Cassandra out with a full wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails...
...wallet was turned over to the police this week, after being found in the Waldorf Cafeteria--minus the money it contained when lost. That money was intended to pay the termbill of a member of the Harvard Band, who now faces the prospect of leaving college for lack of funds...
...Keezer's collections, the item he treasures most and carries always in his wallet is an official pass admitting him to the reserved section on Widener's steps during the 1936 Tercentenary. There he sat and hobnobbed with celebrities from all over the world. John Harvard beat Keezer to the Square by two hundred and fifty years. He gave his library to the college, but Max Keezer has gone deeper into the memories of under-graduates than even books...