Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this report, stated in The Survey: "The most outstanding feature to my mind is the fact that the Negroes have contributed about as much as Mr. Rosenwald and the whites combined. Of course it must be borne in mind that the Negroes' contribution is not entirely in cash, but computed also on the basis of labor and material put into the schoolhouses, and often Negroes who are good collectors obtain some of the funds from whites in the neighborhood...
...contempt as grotesque novelties of penny arcades, honkytonks. And he classed the cinema entrepreneur as a probably illiterate and possibly dirty "outsider." Today the banker reaches out for cinema investments, which are all the more attractive because they represent a $1,500,000,000 amusement industry operated on a cash basis. Not one of the 45,000,000 people who in the course of any week visit the 20,250 U. S. theatres would think of giving his promissory note. Admission fees-$700,000,000 last year-are in current money, money that flows from exhibitor to distributor, to producer...
...table last year had calcium lights over them, broadcasting apparatus before them, and adulation all around them. They were presented with gold watches and other "expressions of esteem." Among those seated at the guest table was Mr. C. C. Pyle--now commonly designated in the news columns as "Cold Cash" Pyle whom the redoubtable "Red," Grange insisted on having at his side. As a matter of fact, various sport promoters helped to promote this $10-a-plate banquet by taking tickets therefor...
...Cash prizes contributed jointly by the Student Council and the CRIMSON will be awarded to the authors of the three best essays. The awards will be $25 to the winner, $15 to the second man, and $10 to the third...
...sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome of Mr. Tilden in the event, that his all-American acting team should be chosen, it only on the basis of Critic Benchley's cogent comment that Tilden could probably coin more cash with Pyle's than with his own theatrical troupe...