Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purported to be a movie theatre in a melancholy mood. It had been a gangster movie with much scramming, much moiling, much drumming gunfire. In the end the "big shot" got his and the public was taught a grand lesson. As he fumbled in his pocket for a subway dime the Vagabond mused to himself that "There, but for the grace of God, was Charles Dickens". Had Dickens lived today he would have written such things, had he lived a thousand years ago he would have winded East with a Crusade. Since he lived in the Nineteenth century he wrote...
...effort to find news. He discovered that a Down & Out Club of Brooklyn has made no effort to claim its bank deposit for 22 years. He found a wine & liquor company that has not claimed its money since the year before Prohibition went into effect. And in the Union Dime Savings Bank, Manhattan, list he found: Laurette Taylor, $590, deposited...
Shattuck is a name to be dreaded by bandits and thieves. In April 1922 four cutthroats entered the Manhattan home of Mr. & Mrs Albert R. Shattuck, robbed them, locked them with eight servants in the wine cellar. With a pocket knife and a dime the prisoners worked their way out, close to death from suffocation. Mr. Shattuck vowed to capture the criminals. In 1924 the last one was captured, was sentenced to 45 to 65 years in Sing Sing. Mr. Shattuck died in 1925, avenged.* The name Shattuck again made news last week when Mary Strong Shattuck, widow of Albert...
Upton Sinclair, hack writer extraordinary to the Socialist Cause, once wrote dime novels for a living. Now he writes them in all seriousness. Like his literary cousins, the late Jacob Abbott and Horatio Alger, Sinclair is apt to make his heroes into preposterous prigs. In The Wet Parade he has out-prigged himself: his hero is a conscientious Prohibition agent...
...6/10 % of all jobless). ¶ In California has circulated a report that President Hoover is a heavy stockholder in South American oil companies, therefore favors a low petroleum tariff. Last week Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey wrote to a member of the National Republican Club: "The President has not one dime of investment of any kind outside the borders of the U. S., whether in oil or otherwise...