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Word: wallets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course the candy alone is worth the fifty cents we are asking; but, in addition as a special introductory offer, the Toe-Main Company has placed a generous gift in each and every box. They include: a Remington electric shaver, a twelve jewel Hamilton wrist-watch, a genuine leather wallet containing a ten dollar bill, and a genuine leather wallet without the ten dollar bill. Now, we have only a limited number of these boxes, so it will have to be first come first served. Who's gonna be first? Whaddya...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

Hastily procuring an oilskin wallet from his paisley smoking jacket, he withdraw from it the assorted collection of bizarre photographs he usually employs to punctuate his salon talks, and spoke at length on the culture, background, and Versatility of the "Contemporary college girl...

Author: By Rubicon K. Twombly rd, | Title: No Holds Barred as Boudoir-Versed L. Esprit Gaulois Lays Down Ground Rules for St. Valentine Frolicking | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

When police informed him that his wallet could be recovered at headquarters, he was taken aback, remarking, "The bounder, I never would have thought it of him. He rather duped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Records Show Parkhurst in Draft Scandal | 1/10/1947 | See Source »

When a fare in Leon Werline's hack left his wallet behind, Werline drove back and found him. From Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, Army veteran Werline got a $20 reward, a couple of drinks, and a citation: "Not for his honesty but for the fact that he is a veteran of the horrible war we have had, God bless him and I thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Customers | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...first inkling came with the post-Thanksgiving snowfall and the vague early hint of sleighbells. As the undergraduate went through the motions of buying presents in Boston's Washington Street maelstrom, watching his thinning wallet and putting a warm cover on his thinning hair, he stayed somehow apart from the festive momentum that was gathering speed in the newspaper ads and New Yorker cartoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thin Wallets, Cooing Maids Usher in Yule | 12/17/1946 | See Source »

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