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Updated: May 13, 2025

For her there was nothing cryptic in a headline such as "Rudie Slams One Home"; and Do pfd followed by dotted lines and vulgar fractions were to her as easily translated as the Daily Hint From Paris. Hers was the photographic eye and the alert brain that can film a column or a page at a glance.

Edna Ferber - Half Portions

You can't rely on it. You take ones like R.O.P. and T.R.R. pfd.; they go down all the time and you know where you are." As a result of which, Tomlinson would send his instructions. He did it all from the rotunda in a way of his own that he had evolved with a telegraph clerk who told him the names of brokers, and he dealt thus through brokers whom he never saw.

Stephen Leacock - Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich