Word: fees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk (Steven Geray) in the Maritime Ministry, got him heavily in debt in a gambling house set up by spies for that express purpose, extorted from him the plans of Yugoslavia's mine fields in the Adriatic. Then he left his victim to suicide and, having collected his fee, double-crossed his employers...
...Independents exhibit the work of anybody who can put up the $5 entrance fee. This year's exhibitors included a bartender, several housewives, a cowpuncher, a brassiere manufacturer, an Internal Revenue agent. There was also solid work by such established artists as Jose de Creeft, John Sloan (Independents' President), John Taylor Arms, Walter Pach...
...into another row. He wrote another letter, this time in answer to the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, which had criticized him for denying soldiers free golf privileges at Bethpage State Park. Excerpt: "Experience has shown that most of the servicemen who play golf are officers, who can afford a reasonable fee, and that the average . . . doughboy regards golf as a sport of toffs* and gentlemen and doesn't know a divot from an Attic tomb inscription...
Gaining importance when a ban was placed on commercial tutoring, the Bureau has been supplying tutors at a nominal fee to legitimate clients of the old schools, students who have missed work because of illness, who have had inadequate secondary school, preparation, or who have had any natural difficulty in keeping up with the course...
...past four years he has sung many minor roles at the Met. His big chance came last week when Lauritz Melchior was busy earning about three times his usual $880 Parsifal fee by taking a turn on Frank Sinatra's radio program. It was the first performance of Parsifal Melchior had missed in four years. Critics agreed that it would undoubtedly not be the last...