Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally won a raise from $2,300 to $2,400 a year, celebrated, then discovered she had been duped by a mirage. The raise put her in a higher withholding-tax bracket, added $96 a year in tax deductions, $5 a year to her retirement-fund payments. Her semimonthly paycheck before the raise: $78.24. After: $78.20. By March the thrill will be gone...
...eyes star-spangled, his shoes freshly whitened. He had pitched in to help win the war. Things looked different now. Now he cursed his Congressman, his tortured sinus, his lumpy boardinghouse bed, the humid streets, the dismal food, the bus service. Mostly, this week, he brooded about his tardy paycheck...
...coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used to pirouette with famed Dancer Mikhail Mordkin, Ballerina Chase spends her winters touring with the company, has a summer home at Narragansett, occasionally throws quiet parties for her dancer...
...Sunday fireside chat the Mayor addressed himself to a little boy named George, who had written in about a gambling place where his father generally lost his weekly paycheck. Said the Mayor: "George, I'm going to put a policeman in that store. You just keep me informed, and other little boys who see the family happiness destroyed because some thieving tinhorn is robbing his daddy of money on horse races or gambling also please let me know. I won't tell anybody that you told me the place, but I'll send the police there...
...personality still reflects that curious mixture of shrewd materialism and esthetic refinement that has made him the prototype of the machine-age architect. Methodical in his working hours, he gets to the office early every morning, drives himself incessantly until evening. Each week he solemnly accepts the weekly paycheck of $45 which he has been getting for the past 40 years, carefully turning over $40 of it to his wife and keeping $5 for "lunches and extras...