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Word: moneyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before they slap down at least $3.85 on the fine they must have some indication that they will get their money's worth in return. That same amount of money could easily take the average spectator to a better football game so why does he persist in getting in a big traffic jam on Larz Anderson bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Gridiron Battle Has Appeal to Outsiders And Alumni Alike Who Jammed Soldiers Field Stadium | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...come around to their door a few days ago, offered them 6 1/2 to 5 on Yale, and had quickly received bets on the Alma Mater by every one present. Winners were to go downtown to the "Old Coffee House" after the game, ask for "Yorkie," and collect their money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS KIDNAP BOOKIE'S HENCHMAN, GET BACK $250 | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Fans who like their war paint thick, their war whoops bloodcurdling and their arson Technicolored, get their money's worth in this picture. Others may be as thankful as the settlers when the war is ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Histories | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...unarmed man is killed, and then the fascists step on his body to advance." Her pages on the evacuation of Barcelona, on the treatment the refugees received at the hands of the French Government, are dreadful reading. In February 1939 she came to the U. S. to raise money. She had scarcely arrived when Madrid fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Histories | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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