Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the bathwomen speak no English and are usually, large, muscular, and determined to earn their rightful tip, most of them dealt with bashful delegates in the manner of a large policeman upholding the majesty of law and custom...
...Manhattan, where tall buildings have begun to cause concern, the Broadway Association last week noted, on the basis of new surveys, that every story of a skyscraper brought 1,000 more people to a neighborhood. But land is so dear on Manhattan Island that buildings must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks...
Last week the news came out that Miss Ederle has profited only $20,000 since the day she staggered onto the beach at Kingsdown, England. Her vaudeville act started out to earn $6,000 a week, of which her share was approximately one-third. Her father and Lawyer Malone took one-third of the gross between them; the theatrical agent grabbed 10%, leaving Miss Ederle to pay the expense account of more than $1,000 weekly out of her own share. Recently, her act has fallen considerably below the $6,000 mark...
...leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists say now I give money to some White Guard people who are against Soviet. That isn't true. The story, it was simple-money I give to poor children in Vienna who belong to those outside...
...picture has been taken in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, of reeling, dripping men with their eyes swollen shut, their noses bleeding, their knees weak, their arms painfully raised to strike each other more blows for the glory of becoming champion pugilists or for the bald necessity of fighting to earn a livelihood. People glance idly at these fight pictures at home, in the newspapers...