Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kids were to learn about this law," he worried, "I can see what would happen. The kid would come in and say, 'Pop. gimme a dime.' Pop says no. So the kid replies: 'You better, or it's going to cost you two hundred and fifty bucks...
...came to your house to spend a day or tew . . . From the phonograph at a dime store record counter another voice in another version lilted with a bouncy, corn pone accompaniment: If He came unexpected, I wonder whut...
Today the bronzes are part of the fabulous collection left the gallery by one of its top benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced...
...dunned/ For another year/ It now costs me/ Five thousand dollars/ To make children three/ From books to scholars/ Of this large sum/ Old Harvard fair/ To teach my son/ Now gets her share/ So I ask ye/ At this costly time/ Please patient be/ Till I have a dime...
...blizzard swept over the peak of Vermont's Mount Mansfield one day last week, a woman in a wheelchair pulled the veil from a two-ton marble sculpture fashioned like a huge dime. With the dedication of the mountaintop sculpture, a monument to the victims of the U.S.'s first polio epidemic,* the 1956 March of Dimes opened. There was the usual fanfare-the sort that has made Americans contribute more than three billion dimes since the drive began in 1938. But the 1956 kickoff was different: for the first time, the year was beginning with the certain...