Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appear stupid, but Rex Weber and Impersonator Albert Carroll are called upon often and not in vain. Mr. Weber vastly amuses his audience by prodigious feats of ventriloquism, then turns serious and leads a band of breadline tatterdemalions in a genuinely stirring ballad called "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Mr. Carroll is at various times a spiritual medium, Lynn Fontanne, James John Walker...
...Eclipse Safely?Eclipse partial over all United States on afternoon, Aug. 31; total in New England; get eclipse data and mounted dark film for observing eclipse by sending a dime and a self-addressed stamped envelope to photographic department, Yerkes Observatory, Williamsbury...
...small-town citizens, its volunteer fire brigade, its lawless Five Points where "leather-hats" (police) never dared venture, its daring real-estate ventures into the open farming country of East 52nd Street. Author Komroff lugs in few historical buried treasures to deck his dime museum. One of them: that the original Tombs prison was so called "because its plan & architecture were inspired by a picture in a popular book of the time called Stevens' Travels. The author of the book was John L. Stevens, Esq. of Hoboken, N. J., and the picture was one of a building in Thebes...
...John Dolbeer, long dead, was a New Hampshire Yankee. The other, Capt. A. M. Simpson, died not long ago, well into the go's. He was a Maine Yankee. Both of them were astonishingly shrewd lumbermill operators and vessel owners, and neither of them ever took a bad dime...
...license which permits his operations there, he was last week faced with litigation that threatened to be far more serious than his embroilment with Sidney Ross. License Commissioner James F. Geraghty gave a hearing to citizens who objected to renewing licenses for the Republic Theatre andthe flea circuses, dime museums, and minor side shows which thrive nearby. Reformer John S. Sumner, Director Henry Moskowitz of the League of New York Theatres, counsel for Forty-Second Street Association and others said that such enterprises lowered the neighborhood's moral tone, depreciated property values, gave the whole city a bad name...