Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey of course enrollments shows 35 Greek and 13 Latin students in the present term, as compared with 27 and 19, respectively, for those subjects in the summer. If this rate is maintained, the college year 1944-45 will show an increase of almost 10 per cent over 1943-44 in the proportion of classical students to the total college enrollment...
...tobacco-short autumn of 1944, gagsters rephrased it "What this country needs is a five-cent cigar...
...sinks back into comfortable anonymity. There have been some 20th-century exceptions, men like Garner and Wallace who made news while in office. But Vice Presidents are mainly remembered, when they are, for irrelevancies, like Thomas Marshall for his catch phrase: "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar...
When he built his home, he made a specific request-that the architect install, in a hidden recess in the fireplace (visible by removing a brass plate and turning on a hidden light), the five-cent boy's top he played with as a schoolboy in Rhode Island...
Then there's the tale of Bob Simpson's tipping a South Station fountain girl with two cents on a forty cent check. He told her to "keep the change dearie" only to have her call him back for short-changing her. Was his face flushed! But perhaps not so badly as Jack Traumbauer's, who has been sending his paper collars to the laundry and complaining of the service...