Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bandit in the House. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Geraldine McDonald asked police to remove a slot machine from a closet in her home, averred that her children were putting all their allowance money into it, and their stepfather, who owns the machine, refused to give the money back...
While the number of students accepting employment has risen steadily, the amount of money they have earned has jumped even more. In 1953, working undergraduates gained $200,000, but this last year students earned over $660,000. Most of the employment was on a part-time basis--ten to twelve hours per week...
...convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess. The courtesan, on the other hand, was elegant, intelligent, well informed and equipped by temperament and training for the management of men and money...
Belle herself was less interested in money than she was in fun. She was delighted when Bert Swift "began to spend some of his pork fat on me," but she was always ready to go racing off to Arabia with only one maid and 85 hats to dynamite for turquoise in the desert, or to make a casual bet that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count...
...Belle downhearted? Not in the least. She had the baby, wrote a book, married a millionaire from Cleveland, later switched to the middle-aged son of a British banker and ran through his fortune in about a dozen years. "Belle." he said gently one day, "we have no more money." Gently, she left him. Before the year was out she was consorting with streetwalkers in London's slums and sleeping at night on the Thames Embankment...