Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon, Harold has worked his way to Sage's where he invests in two dwarfed loaves of French bread (one thin dime apiece). From Brattle Street he ventures to Radcliffe to watch workmen labor over Ada M. Comstock, and eats his loaves of bread. There is a near-by drinking fountain...
...club bar usually makes up for food losses. But rare is the club that nets a dime on much else. Good clubs spend an average $2,300 per hole per year to keep up the golf course, another $1,000 to keep up each tennis court, etc., etc.-all of which are maintained for the pleasure of a relatively few members. The $100,000 swimming pool, open from May 30 to Labor Day, flows with...
CHEAPER STEAKS are coming. Prime beef prices have dipped to year's low of 28¾? in Chicago, off a dime from high of last March...
Flying Down to Rio. In Rio, where he was comfortably ensconced last week in a $300-a-month apartment with a view of famed Sugar Loaf Mountain, Belle blandly denied that he had stolen a dime. "All I got," said he, "is $2,600-my wife's savings." As to the other $800,000 or so, Belle said unscrupulous former associates stole it. He also said that he would "never" return to the U.S. "I guess permanent exile is punishment enough...
Mothers of River City! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption. The moment your son leaves the house does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he memorizing jokes out of Capt. Billy's "Whiz Bang"? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so, my friends-ya got Trouble...