Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mania. Started in the Northwest about 28 years ago (called ''indoor baseball played out-doors"), it took root only in recent years, then sprouted all over the country as a recreation for office and factory workers and a spectator sport for folks with only a dime to spend. In 1933. when the Chicago Century of Progress put on a national Softball tournament as part of its sport program, the game received its biggest boost. Today there are some 5,000,000 players (men and tomboys) and 200,000 teams (sponsored by churches, movie stars, saloons, banks) with names...
...succession. He rushes at business with the same enthusiasm, somewhat deceptively because the impetuosity breaks down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...
Thirty years ago only the rich could afford the strange meaty taste of avocado pears. Now avocados cost around a dime apiece instead of $5. West Indian avocados are grown in Florida, and some 13,000,000 pounds were imported last season from Cuba (certain spectacular avocados weigh two pounds apiece). But most avocados eaten in the U. S. come from California. Californians look down their noses at the West Indian article; California avocados are Guatemalan or Mexican or a cross beween the two. The Fuerte, a hybrid, called "the sturdy" because it shivered through the Big Freeze...
...will go to the Paradise Restaurant, where none other than Hope Chandler, immortalized on the cover of Life magazine a couple of months ago, will welcome you. If you've got a dime you might even be able to work in a quick Big Apple...
Young & lithe enough to be worth a dime of any man's dance money, Helen Abney, 1 8, taxi-danced three January nights running in a thronged Detroit hall until she was ready to drop. When she could not raise her head from her pillow one morning, she thought she was just tired. When chills & fever racked her and her bones ached, she thought she had grippe. A rash breaking out on her face suggested scarlet fever or chickenpox. When the red spots became elevated and exuded pus, there remained no doubt that dancing Helen Abney was afflicted with...