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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...
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...
...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...
...pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which is the equivalent of a double-size stuffed wallet and worth about $10 U.S. (when carrying more Chinese dollars I must bring an overnight bag or briefcase along); one piece of string to keep currency wad tight; a phone installation bill of $50 U.S. (one coke in Nanking costs $1 U.S.); assorted cables from New York, etc. I leave my wallet...
There is less suggestion in the book than in the film that the seagoing proletariat is getting the life squeezed out of it for the satisfaction of a martinet and of the shipowner's wallet. The original account, in fact, is milder but more interesting, and obviously the work of a levelheaded and observant young man who had a sober interest in setting down neither more nor less than...