Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office boy. His only departure from the Alger script was in the lush '20s: "I made plenty of dough but I spent it-while the other boys were losing theirs in the stockmarket." When he went into business for himself in 1930 he didn't have a dime. He rented a $45-a-month office, got $1,500 worth of credit from a sign-painting company, talked himself into managing properties that had been hard hit by depression. In the first year, he says, he made...
Early in October the first of the succession of committees was formed under the title of the American Independence League. In four or five days the A.I.L. sold 600 buttons at a dime apiece. The members wore their badges for a week at the most, put them away, and forgot them. Except for one brief and poorly attended meeting in the winter, the A.I.L. never raised its head again. It was the prototype of what was to follow...
...political oratory. He slipped in sly asides that made listeners guffaw; he made them cry with his exhortation to the fallen nations. Now he lashed Britain's enemies with the splendor of Elizabethan arrogance; now he hissed at them in a way remindful of an old-time dime-novel hero polishing off the villain in the last chapter...
Skin Off, Skin On. Intense is the word for Jacksonville's training. The Navy makes it coldly clear from the start that no dime-novel fliers are wanted. New cadets are greeted with the warning: "Re member that you are Naval officers as well as Naval aviators." To show that these are no idle words, the Navy spends the first six weeks of its precious training time schooling the novice cadets in its traditions, odd jargon and technical functions. Before a cadet can pin on the silver bar of a Second Classman - the happy sign that...
...ballyhoo for the forthcoming American Youth Congress in Philadelphia as a red-hot peace rally. The Worker even referred to elegant, wing-collared, Groton-schooled Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles as "Mr." There were also many chest-throwing stories of Russian Army prowess written in old-fashioned dime-novel style. Typical sample: "Soviet frontier guards, who sustained the first sudden attack of the perfidious fascist enemy, fought like lions and covered themselves with immortal glory. . . ." But the Worker did not in so many words predict a Soviet victory...