Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promised $20,000,000. Huey Long announced: "I am not a betting man but I am willing to bet no person loses a thin dime. . . . Watch for Monday. All will be happy." On Monday all banks opened for business one hour earlier than usual. The Hibernia ran a full-page advertisement (from which President Hecht's name was omitted), offering to pay each & every depositor on demand. New Orleans returned to its preparations for Mardi Gras...
...programatic as Grofé's. It described tables being set in a speakeasy still reeking with smoke from the night before. Revelers drifted in. Two lovers sat in a corner oblivious to the noise around them. Hot, reeling couples packed the dance floor "not much bigger than a dime." Corks popped in a drunken finale. But Night Club had verve, spontaneity, fresh harmonic and rhythmic effects missing from the run of ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with no place to go. Two parts at least-the melody given to the lovers and the strident "Dance...
...turn for the worse during the depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober and heary, but with the one symbol of their Freemasonry, the refrain "Could jalemme have a dime for a cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have any of the elements of humanity in him he cannot give...
...Mark, 60, pioneer cinema showman; of a cerebral hemorrhage while en route from a Clifton Springs (N. Y.) sanitarium to his White Plains home; in Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking...
...have not in 15 years since I entered public service had a dime's interest outside the United States of any kind, including oil," President Hoover last week telegraphed G. O. Partisans in Southern California. They had complained that Democrats were circulating stories to the effect that President Hoover had large foreign oil holdings which made him unsympathetic to an oil tariff. The President added that he did not believe an oil duty could have been voted into the 1932 Revenue Act without his support...