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Word: dime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like nothing so much as a Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Peter of Yugoslavia, Austria's Archduke Franz Joseph, and Lady Franks, wife of the British ambassador. Wedding gifts included a set of Doulton china from Princess Elizabeth, and, for David, six suits and a complete dental rehabilitation job on both uppers & lowers, from his friend, five-&-dime heir Woolworth Donohue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Thelma Jordon (Paramount), in telling the story of a fall guy, has a production polish as bright as a new dime but uses a plot that was minted long ago. Wendell Corey is a petulant assistant district attorney with an ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children. But he goes on a binge and is exposed to the mature blandishments of Barbara Stanwyck, who gets him involved in a nasty murder. Corey is disbarred and Barbara dies in an auto accident over the convenient Hollywood cliff that has served as the execution block for many an offender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Smoker will be held in Memorial Hall and Sanders Theater, but '53 will pay 60 cents a ticket, "slightly more" than in previous years. Rising costs have boosted the price of the ticket to 50 cents, and the entertainment tax ups the price another dime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Talent May Perform at March 3 Smoker | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactor Gary (I Was a Male War Bride) Grant, 45, and Cinemactress Betsy (Every Girl Should Be Married) Drake, 26, who became his screen protégée two years ago; he for the third time (No. 2: five & dime Heiress Barbara Hutton), she for the first time; after an elopement from Hollywood in a plane piloted by Best Man Howard Hughes; near Phoenix, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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