Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the cabs started to roll. Denny Lewis, John L.'s little brother and boss of District 50, told the boys to hold fast, that U.M.W.'s $14 million treasury was behind them, but the strikers found out they couldn't get a dime for a cuppa cawfee...
...vocabulary contains only a part of the Americanisms that have invaded the everyday Spanish of the Isthmus, mainly by infiltration from the English-speaking Canal Zone. Other beachheads, on subjects ranging from elegant eating (at a dinerdans) to economic blockade (boicot), include chingongo (chewing gum), guachiman (watchman), daim (dime), bichicomer, the verbs blofear (to bluff) and quidnapear, the meaningful noun...
...years the dime novels, pulp magazines and comic books of Street & Smith have helped U.S. males while away billions of idle hours in bunkhouses, fo'c'sles, foxholes and subways. One generation escaped into a world of high adventure and happy endings in Nick Carter and Horatio Alger tales; another ate up Supersnipe and the Shadow comics. None of their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five...
...dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...Mack. Why, he demanded, had executive bonuses been maintained while the dividend had been passed? Said Mack: bonuses had been scaled down according to the earnings (in 1948, Mack got $20,000 on top of his $104,000 salary). Anyway, he added, good executives "don't come a dime a dozen...