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Word: wallets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, Stanley Banks must have withered fast, because his family scarcely noticed him at all for the next few months. He was always somewhere around, though-in his wife's way, under the florist's feet, beneath the caterer's contempt-with his hand in his wallet and his heart in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Long Shot. In Philadelphia, several days, after Bernard Goodis had lost a full ($32) wallet, he got it back empty in the mail, with a note: "I put your money on a horse; if it pays off I will return your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...hour later, around 7 a.m., he regained consciousness, identified himself, discovered his wallet and $13 were missing, and reported the robbery and assault to police. He was removed shortly thereafter to Stillman Infirmary

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Held Up; Robbers Throw Senior in Charles | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

R.S.V.P. In Santa Monica, Calif., police had no trouble tracking down Allen Levoff, suspected of robbing the Bay Cities Transit Co. safe: he had dropped his wallet containing his felon's identification card near the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club discovered the impracticality of hiring a downtown theater when it had to appeal to every friendly wallet after plummeting into debt in its production of "The Survivors" at the Plymouth Theater last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Forced Into Sanders Again in Fall | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

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