Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domestic service has fallen so low on the U.S. status scale-it used to be considered a skilled career-that most girls would rather work in a dime store, even at a lower salary...
...that matter, to impress him with the modern world's displeasure. If he was limited as a thinker, Cummings nevertheless spoke in an astonishing range of poetic tones of voice and mastered a wild variety of poetic rhythms-lines that crept, leaped, staggered, paced proudly, turned on a dime, flowed smoothly as a prayer. More than any other poet of his time, he dressed up the few ideas he had in all sorts of outrageous and engaging costumes, cheerfully presenting them again and again...
...third screen version of the grisly Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux, the phantom as interpreted by Herbert Lorn looks about as dangerous as dear old granddad all dressed up for Hallowe'en in a mouthless lavender mask that could probably be duplicated for a dime at any corner candy store. And why does he wear a mask? Because his face is so horrible that if people saw it they would run out of the theater hollering eeeeeeeeeek? No. Because, it turns out, he still looks like Liberace...
...into the horoscope game when a highly popular astrologer quit a radio program King was managing-receives and answers queries by mail, telephone, and telegraph, and never sees a client. Instead, he saturates the mass market with a riptide of astrological merchandising distributed through newsstands, drug and dime stores: Zolar's Book of Forbidden Knowledge, Zolar's Official Astrology Magazine, Zolar's Official Dream Book. Last week the great Zolar was upset, he said, by New York's investigation "because it casts...
Unlocked Cages. Perhaps reacting to his dark-haired, dark-eyed mother, he has had three blonde, blue-eyed wives. The first was Virginia Cherrill, the flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights; the second was Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton, and Cary will go down in history as one Hutton husband who did not ask for alimony; the third is Actress Betsy Drake, whose grandfather built Chicago's Drake and Blackstone hotels...