Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables;. The Northeasterners did not retaliate. . . . Accepting the Husky-dog, whose team-leader, Balto, has lately been on view in a Los Angeles dime museum "for men only" (TIME, Feb. 28), President Speare conferred upon it a "roads scholarship...
...Angeles, Calif., idlers, bummers, run-dums, hooligans, drugstore cowboys, shuffled into a dime museum "for men only" to gawp at stimulating pictures, grisly specimens, pickled freaks, wax wonders, and at Balto, famed Alaskan husky dog, who pulled the lead trace on the sledge that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome two winters ago; the dog to whom Manhattan erected a bronze statue...
...Emerson and Fielding shelf for some time without apparently being able to discover just what he wanted. When I asked if he could be helped he replied quickly, 'Oh, yes, I was looking to see if there was anybody here who would give me two nickels for a dime. I wanted to telphone.' I insisted that he take the only nickel. I had in change although he wanted to give me the dime. He went away happy, and returned the loan the next...
Many persons, of envious temper, or lacking in aesthetic sense, have sneered at the face of John D. Rockefeller Sr. The legends that Mr. Rockefeller is fond of vinegar-pickle, that he drinks hot milk, plays golf in trousers ten years old and never tips more than a dime have so prejudiced these persons that when they see the face of Mr. Rockefeller in the rotogravure section, smiling at golf balls or giving dimes to children, they perceive that the face is old, and say that it is mean. John Singer Sargent, greatest of U. S. portrait painters, had another...
...these three men the bestowal of the "golden touch" would seem commonplace beside the marvel of their promotion. Never before have Morgan employes been made Morgan partners.† Horatio Alger imagined for his self-made dime novel heroes no such dizzying climb to altitudes of power...