Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started hooking candy from the corner store," Frankie recalls. "Then little things from the five-and-dime, then change from cash registers, and finally, we were up to stealing bicycles." Pretty soon Frank was involved in some rough gang wars. He got so good at planning jobs that his awe-struck henchmen called him "Angles," and he had plenty of bad examples to follow, pretty close to home. The streets he played in were full of bootleggers and triggermen; there were even a couple of neighborhood gang killings...
...Wealthy Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly decided not to sue Rave for a story about his daughter, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, when he learned that its editor (then on the masthead as "Victor Huntington Rowland") "didn't have a dime." Said ex-Olympic Sculler Kelly: "If my son or I ever meet him, we'll take him on ... We'll settle it in our own way without a lawsuit...
...residents of his new development, and another has agreed to make a $300 contribution for every new home. Elsewhere, however, the builders have balked. Says F. W. Bills of the Chicago Metropolitan Home Builders Association: "If it was up to me, I wouldn't pay a dime...
...article of common faith, no one could match Carter's. Once, inviting a group of out-of-towners to visit Fort Worth, Carter wired with typical hospitality: "Carry only what money you need before you get to Texas. You will not be able to spend a dime in the state...
...under a glittering Gold Coast marquee that spells out "Metropole Cafe," peer into the gloom to see where all the noise is coming from. What they see looks like an alley lined with mirrors. On one side is a 110-ft.-long bar, on the other a cluster of dime-size tables. Behind the bar, on a narrow, chest-high platform, is a line of musicians, cash registers at their toes and microphones at their shoulders. The Metropole, it turns out, is one of the sturdiest Northern outposts of an obsolescent brand of music: Dixieland jazz...