Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ahead character with nothing to learn but humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right. I've got steady work with the telephone company." Asked what his job was, he introduced himself as Walter Sherman Gifford, president of A. T. & T. After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that...
...TIME does not know that Governor Haskell never owed the State a dime in his life...
...Montreal, Louis Philippe Sauvageau, jobless longshoreman exhilarated by summer sunshine, singing birds, green grass, strolled down St. James Street singing ''Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" As he launched into the chorus a constable approached, listened, arrested him for begging without a permit...
...remarkable was a protective committee formed last week with the following in its personnel: a vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the treasurer of New York Life, vice presidents of John Hancock and Equitable, a representative of Halsey, Stuart & Co.. the president of Manhattan's Union Dime Savings Bank...
...Weber, onetime burlesque ventriloquist who introduced "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" in this season's Americana, finds himself thoroughly at home among paupers of an earlier period. He is Jonathan Peachum, director general of London's beggars, who finally persuades Sheriff Brown to hang his good friend Captain Macheath because the erring captain has won the heart of Jonathan's daughter Polly. Robert Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna...