thirty-a-week

Updated: May 11, 2025

Most of them had known him in his newspaper days; and, though every man there would have perished rather than admit it, they were grateful to Jimmy for being exactly the same to them now that he could sign a check for half a million as he had been on the old thirty-a-week basis.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Intrusion of Jimmy