Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dime for the Rock
...enthusiasm required of a modern candidate; after an 18-hour day, he can look out over a street-corner crowd of 50 and say: "This is terrific. Really wonderful!" He has a sense of humor about his own wealth. Walking down a Brooklyn street recently, he found a dime, stuffed it in his pocket, said: "This is like carrying coals to Newcastle." His favorite promise and a proven laugh-getter: "I'd like to give Averell Harriman a run for his money...
...that a mark (sucker) got much for his money when he bought a ticket (50? for adults, 30? for kids) to Lew Alter's sideshow. It cost an extra dime to see the "Pickled Punk" (two questionable sets of Siamese twins preserved in formaldehyde), another quarter for a glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named...
...noon at lunch, showing off the check to friends and customers, Shor ordered champagne on the house and disclosed to Cannon that he is already having problems, being so rich. Coming up from the bank, Shor said: "I got to the joint and started to tip the hackie a dime. I figured I ought to start acting like all those other millionaires. But I didn't have the guts to be cheap." Now, said Shor, whose pet gripe is the stinginess of the rich, "I got to be nice to them. They're my people." With only...
...only tell you this: if you spot Harold on the street (you can tell him by the flies) pause to flip him a dime. You're buying posterity's culture cut-rate, not to mention tomorrow morning's toast