Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High in a Manhattan office building last week a tall, white-haired man proudly thumbed three dummy paperbacked books. Vivid covers proclaimed them Vol. I, No. 1 of Swift Story Magazine (It Fits Your Pocket), The Pocket Magazine and The Dime Novel. First of the three was ready for publication this week. But it was The Dime Novel, scheduled to appear next month, which brought a reflective smile to the white-haired man-William Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), author of the famed old time Frank Merriwell series, now venturing for the first time as his own publisher...
...narrowly escaped death last month when foes opened fire on an automobile of which he was an occupant in South State Street. Last week swart Jack Zuta strolled across the dance floor of a roadhouse at Delafield, Wis. He had just telephoned a girl in Chicago. He had a dime in his hand which he dropped into the mechanical piano. He looked happy. The mechanical piano began to grind out "Good...
...whole meal; was what made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip...
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...Chicago, surgeons saved the life of Wynan King, a sword swallower who had swallowed a dime...