Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Prince Igor Troubetzkoy threatened court action to make his wife come home and act like a wife, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Hutton declared that her fourth husband was no bargain either. Said Barbara from Madrid: "He's one of the cheapest men I've ever met in my life. He only married me for my money...
...looking for a product that can be made for a dime, sold for a dollar, and is habit forming...
...father's urging, plans to take charge of her $30 million. In a jealous swivet, the moll begins throwing things like coffee pots and Jeroboams of champagne, finally throws a couple of slugs into her wayward gunman. Long before that point, enough brutality, bravado and dime-novel sex have been ladled into the killer-hero's life to keep this potboiler simmering merrily along...
...flood was on. In the next few decades, Beadle's authors hacked out thousands of dime novels (priced anywhere from 5? to 50?), countless short stories, and even some poems of a sort...
...Strenuous Life. Despite the low rates, dime novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...