Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently, if she could afford to live at a hotel, and she thinks your publication so well worth reading, why not contribute less than a dime weekly to those lounge lizards and lobby loiterers cheerfully by giving them her paper, which would perhaps be instrumental in making better men of them, instead of slandering a State, which has given birth to some of the best Americans that ever lived, that is so rich in honorable and valuable American history...
...Every woman could be beautiful on ten cents a day," said Mrs. Ruth J. Maurer to the Beauty Trades Show-at Chicago last week. But, she added, instead of spending a dime per face daily, which would total some $3,000,000, U. S. women together spend $5,000,000 daily on cosmetics, waves, shingles, manicures, brow-plucking, chin-melting, neck-ironing, bath salts...
Stimulated prospects produced their dimes, encountered a dull but comprehensive survey of theatre censorship in Manhattan-which genteelly referred to the three recently attacked plays but did not mention them by name.* The article made such conclusions as: "It is possible that both sides were right. . . . Perhaps, after all, New York does not care particularly what happens." And then the nice old ladies and other dime spenders read an editorial entitled, "Part Men, Part Goats," by Barton Wood Currie, who came from the New York Evening World to the Country Gentleman and from there in 1920 to edit the Ladies...
...Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...
...into Boston nowadays, the Harvard student descends into the bowels of the earth, drops a dime into a box, and enters a coffin-like case of steel. He is whirled over the Charles to Park Street Under in ten minutes, almost before he realizes it, to be spat up on the surface again via an escalator...