Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Money for Dates. Bronx neighbors still remember the thin, dark-haired girl on the way home from school, munching a 5? pickle and reading plays as she walked. But in her senior year Anne inexplicably decided to become a lab technician and work nobly at the side of some great researcher. Mamma again called the shots, scraped up the $500 tuition to send Anne to the august American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was just two weeks before graduation from the Academy that she was discovered practicing alone on the school's darkened stage while everyone else...
...tank in a carnival booth and waited to be won by the holder of the lucky number. One day the goldfish saw a small boy looking into the tank. The boy wanted with all his heart to win the goldfish and take it home, but he had no money to bet with. The goldfish and the boy looked at each other for some time, wishing and wondering. Then a big man with a black beard came. He looked like a professor and was obviously the wrong type for a goldfish. When he saw the one in the tank, his eyebrows...
While the plumpish, corseted blonde doled out details (she was a "friend" of the escapee, who had phoned her from Havana for money), the Herald put in a quick call to Miami International Airport. There, by luck, the paper had a man waiting for the next plane to Havana. What's more, Reporter James Coe Buchanan was just the man for the story. On previous Cuban assignments, he had hidden out with Castro rebels, filed eyewitness accounts of the bloody skirmishing. And last summer, when Castro troops trapped a tiny invasion force from the Dominican Republic, wiry, 43-year...
...industry in an uproar. Cattle and sheep associations throughout the West accuse him of everything from anti-Americanism to stealing away the livelihood of the U.S. rancher. Jim Delfino, fed up with the marginal profits of the domestic livestock industry, has gambled $500,000 that he can make more money by importing cattle and sheep 7,900 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Australia and New Zealand to U.S. markets...
...Anna Gould, $15,000,000, Count Boni de Castellane, who spent her money on other women, abused and struck her. ¶Lilian May, $1,000,000, Lord Bagot, who stopped her from taking her child to church...