Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neck was no new experience for Willie Bioff, who only recently got out of the clink for his 20-year-old pandering conviction, and was already under another indictment for trying to evade payment of $85,000 in income taxes. Mr. Bioff wailed: "I never extorted a dime from anybody." Mr. Browne, never in jail himself, has had many another close friend there, including Nick Circella. Capone mobster. If convicted of extortion, Bioff and Browne face a maximum of 30 years in prison, fines of $30,000 each...
Critics gave them all a hand, agreed that Dean Dixon had scored a point. For Town Hall debuts, ordinarily a dime a dozen sound like bigtime with an orchestra on the stage. Dean Dixon's can be hired for $400 to $1,000, depending on the number of players required-union scale for one rehearsal and the performance...
With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful. Routine and deadly are sniping isolated German soldiers, drowning them in convenient canals. "Moffen (slang for Germans) cocktails" spiked with sulfuric acid were served so freely that Germans no longer care to drink in public bars. Other favorites: poisoned pencils to be jabbed into Germans in crowds or the darkness of theatres, strychnine crystals dropped into plates of food from under the fingernails...
Divorced. Barbara ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Hutton, Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, 28, five-and-dime heiress ($20,000,000); from Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 44, as the decree signed by Denmark's King Christian X became final. Son Lance, 5, will spend most of the year with his mother. His father will spend the next few days in a hospital. He fractured a shoulder skiing at Sun Valley...
Hockey was practically unaffected. In all big-league hockey there were only about eight Americans, and the Canadians had already served their training period (one month) in the off season last year. Professional football stood to lose about 10% of its players, but good football players were a dime a dozen. Prize fighting's best prospect was Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis-No. 378 on his local draft board and ready, willing and able to respond to an early call...