Word: dime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before her confinement. Intrigued by the story and charmed by the gentle manners of the bearded girl, her shy looks and silences, Professor Farini took her to Berlin and had her finely educated. But evil fortune fell on him; he was forced to place his ward in the Brandenburg Dime Museum in Philadelphia, where she was first exhibited...
Five shots for a dime, twenty for a quarter, from a real man-killing gun. In Louisville, Ky., one Charles J. Smith eyed the shooting gallery nightly as he hobbled home on crutches. Men seemed to have fun popping the gaudy ducks, and the ducks did not mind even when they were hit. One night last week he hobbled up to the counter, threw down his crutches, paid a dime. His first shot did no harm. His second he put carefully through his own head. In his pocket police found a note to his mother...
...John D. Rockefeller, and I want to thank you for your courtesy. I am not trying to bribe you. Here is a dime for your wife, yourself, and each of your children...
...comfort himself if it's worth a dime...
Between those two nights were many tumbles, shuffles; Weber and Fields clogged in dime museums, warbled for sidewalk audiences, galooted in saloons for $2 a day and 3 beer checks, toured with variety troups. Pages of their jocular maudlinity fill the book...