Word: cards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jake and Brian could love Sam. Sam knows the surest path to befriending the two comes through a credit card. For Jake, there is the motorbike; for Christmas, Jake is not impressed, "He's an asshole," Jake says...
Henry's Hideaway opened without a hitch. Parishioners paid $5 each for membership in the private club, a card that says on the back, "Many people make Henry's Hideaway a happy place by coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead...
...hour, while the C's commanded $400 an hour to $1,000 for the night. For $2,000, a customer could sign up for a ten-hour session that included dinner out, a show, dancing and recreation. The call girls carried attaché cases equipped with a credit-card machine for their clients' convenience. Barrows' establishment, based in a brownstone, took 60% of each woman's earnings. The women had to shave their legs daily, and Barrows kept careful menstrual and weight charts on them. Those who got a bit flabby were suspended from work...
...Baseball cards were first sold in cigarette packs in the 1880s and with bubble gum beginning in 1933. They began drawing more fans in 1981, when Fleer and Donruss started issuing cards to challenge Topps Chewing Gum Inc., of Brooklyn, the biggest manufacturer. Card production among the companies has zoomed like a pop fly, from an estimated 500 million a year in the late 1970s to 1.5 billion this year...
...estimated 200,000 serious collectors, many are adults who sell and trade the cards like rare stamps. For them, Topps has issued a 402-card reprint of its most famous set, circa 1952. Today an original set fetches about $7,500. The reprints, however, sell...