Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, shrewd Axel Svanson dined on pigeons which he had caught while they were eating the peanuts he had bought with a dime he had begged from a passerby...
...series of field-days working off old grudges, boosting what he regards as worthy objects. Prohibition is immediately repealed. Taking a tip from the noble experiment, Thayer revivifies the moribund book business by prohibiting it. The tale leaps from improbability to implausibleness, ends in a gory dime-novel welter. But it is readable; and some of the U. S. satire is telling, though often told...
...companions, patronizes dance halls and chop-suey dens. While drunk he kills a friendly old delicatessen dealer. At the trial he dramatizes his predicament, undertakes to conduct the defense of himself & accomplices. He repents, too late, when he has been sentenced to death. Good shot: Eric Linden borrowing a dime from the prison attendant to give his small brother when he says goodbye...
...which the boys must conform. Intelligence counts twenty points, the highest. The ability to understand the word "no" counts five percent, the lowest. Which all boils down to the fact that a young man can be ninety-five percent perfect and have a pretty good time for a dime...
...Back in Manhattan, she did not giggle when ex-Governor Smith of New York took her father up the Empire State Building, asked him to look through a telescope, nor become flustered when it turned out that vainly peering Premier Laval could see nothing until a dime was inserted...