Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died-John Munroe, 64, pioneer publisher (with his father) of paperback dime novels ("Fireside Library" series, Dare-devil Dick); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Cents a Dance," is the only first rate song. After the lovely woman with the lovely voice sang it the reviewer began to think that there was something in these dime banks after...
...Deliberate Sabotage." Commented the American-edited Moscow News: "The indictment . . . reads like fiction of the dime novel sort, and would be rejected as preposterous if it were not so clearly based on fact. Everyone who has been in the Soviet Union long has known personally of cases of deliberate sabotage . . . on the part of an enemy of the Soviet Government who happened to be in a responsible position...
Many of those who have lately invested a dime in a ride on the subway that so conveniently links Cambridge and Boston must have noticed the advertisement, paid for by the W. C. T. U., which, accepted as truthful, would carry a pofgnant and commanding appeal. "Protest your children," it reads, "Make out highways dryways. Vote No for the repeal of the Bady Volstead Act on Nov. 4th." To make the message more arresting, the advertisement carries a realistic picture of what seems to be a drunken driver, a smashed automobile, and a mangled body...
Like the Tip-Top Library, which for two decades purveyed a weekly heroism of the peerless Merriwell, The Dime Novel will concern itself with the adventures of one character. Aware that juvenile readers of today demand something more salty than prep school pranks and last-minute football victories, Author Patten cast about for a 1930 setting for his hero. The result: "Bob Hunter, or The Boss of the Rum Runners." Because, like Merriwell, Bob Hunter must be of eminently sterling worth, he will be enmeshed in illegal activities against his will, his conscience and his judgment. Many of the episodes...