Word: dime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kokomo, Ind., Mrs. V. S. Wiley found a dime copy of her $150 diamond ring in a dime store, took hers off to verify the similitude, found it so close, that unwittingly she threw her own ring into the bauble tray. It lay there four days, scorned by 5-&-10 shoppers...
...Pittsburgh one James Plunkett, 52, panhandler, begged Harry Westbrook, 90, for a dime. Westbrook gave him 25?. Plunkett demanded more. Westbrook took off Plunkett's eyeglasses, felled him with a smart blow...
...Cross Hospital a bullet, flat as a dime, and a bit of splintered jawbone were removed from the mouth of President Ortiz Rubio. The other casualties were bandaged and sent home. Speechless but undaunted, as befits a direct descendant of Tzintzicna, last of the 19 Tarrascan Kings who ruled under the Aztec Emperors of Mexico, President Ortiz Rubio insisted on scrawling a telegram to his two handsome sons Fernando and Guillermo, at school in Gettysburg...
...last night. "Harvard men don't cut up much. We've got a bigger market in less educated educational centers". At any rate, Arthurs, Inc., have taken up the Harvard monopoly on the cards, which are now on sale in the tobacconist's shop in the Lampoon Building, a dime apiece, three for a quarter...
...founded Physical Culture City at Helmetta, N. J., as a health resort and a base for his publishing campaigns; but before things were properly under way he was arrested, charged with sending lewd & obscene matter through the mails. The offending mote was Wild Oats, a serial dime-novel of syphilis, appearing in Physical Culture. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, $2,000 fine. After he vainly appealed the case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Attorney General Wickersham remitted the prison sentence, but not the fine...