Word: wallets
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Buying war bonds was patriotic but dull for months on end, a duty of the stuffiest kind, which wounded one's wallet at the same time it depressed the spirit. Then the Treasury soft-pedaled the grim reminders of danger, need and duty, and called in Hollywood and Broadway. As one man the pressagents ordered: "Cheesecake...
Since the Navy's appropriation of the Union, she has virtually been driven from pillar to post. Eating is her greatest problem. Fastidious tastes, she found, must be sacrificed if her wallet is not thickly interlined
Died. Ernest Bramah Smith (pen name: Ernest Bramah), 74, British writer of detective fiction (The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed...
...Yard." You don't have to march in time or anything like that: just be nice and don't try to pull anything tricky. Once you get to the office, your troubles are almost over. As you stand in line and await your educational passport, feel in your wallet. Of course you have ten dollars resting expectantly between the bill folds. There are three other pieces of green paper, worth approximately one dollar apiece, snuggled in beside it, but don't touch them: they are for your athletic locker. And don't worry about getting home in September. Rumor bath...
While millions of U.S. newspaper readers cheered, a comic-strip character had his 21st birthday last week. He was Skeezix Wallet, star of Frank King's saga of homey, U.S. middle-class life, Gasoline Alley. Unlike most other comic-strip characters, Skeezix has grown every day since a flabbergasted Uncle Walt found him on the doorstep of his home. At Springfield's Illinois State Museum, Skeezix's birthday was celebrated with an exhibition of Cartoonist King's original Skeezix drawings. They showed that, in the course of some 34,000 pictures of Skeezix, Cartoonist King...