Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several seasons ago the authors of Suzanna wrote a funny play about bundling -The Pursuit of Happiness. In Suzanna they waver uncertainly between pale comments on the folly of socialist hopes in a world which loves to squat on a dime, and rather skittish comedy derived from the idea of a human stud farm...
...Hear Music (Russ Morgan; Decca). Cute rendering of cutest tune from the film Dancing On a Dime...
...weeks following Woodrow Wilson's reelection in 1916, America was quiet and relaxed. Pacifists were a dime a dozen, but the nation was not prepared for the chain of events which in the ensuing months utterly destroyed America's will to stay at peace. Today's deceptive post-election calm, underscored by unity meetings, holds that same menace...
...through the Balkans, over the Dardanelles and across Turkey (for strategy, see color map opposite p. 62), was somewhat more hypothetical-because of the unknown quantity, Russia. But Germany and Italy would like to have a go at bothersome Turkey. Excuses for a campaign in the Balkans were a dime a dozen. Italy had one all ready: border strife between Greece and Albania. Troop concentrations threatened a major short circuit at that partly burned-out fuse last week. The way had also been paved by the partition of Rumania and the abdication of King Carol. By last week the Iron...
...editor-publisher, natty, mustached Milton Whately Harrison who named Tax Lawyer Randolph Evernghim Paul of Wall Street's Lord, Day & Lord as moderator. Moderator Paul chose his sides skillfully. On business' teams, he lined up such stalwarts as Old Colony Trust Co.'s T. Jefferson Coolidge, Dime Savings Bank's Philip Adolphus Benson, Guaranty Trust Co.'s Robert L. Garner, Bowery Savings Bank's Earl Bryan Schwulst, Kuhn Loeb's Benjamin J. Buttenwieser. On Government's team, he picked such men as Jerome Frank, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Lauchlin Currie, Emanuel Alexander...