Word: moolah
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...when she took her first step into the ring. At the time, women had a minimal presence in wrestling, but Ellison's signature flying drop-kicks and hair-pulling body slams quickly earned her a loyal fan base. Shortly after she started wrestling, a promoter nicknamed Ellison the "Fabulous Moolah" for her stated ambition in life: money. In 1956, she won the World Women's Championship. Twenty-eight years later she was defeated, but she regained the throne--in her 70s. "I love old people, and I love babies," said Moolah, who was the first woman inducted into the World...
Opening a movie big is not rocket science. It involves spending a lot of moolah on special effects and on preopening publicity. But even more, it involves appealing to the type of people for whom seeing a movie the first weekend is important: young men. Thus there are a lot of movies--this is not sexist, it's just business--about superheroes, things blowing up and terrifying ordeals at the hands of ghastly psychos. (To be fair, research shows young women also enjoy the last.) Then the guys--or girls--can attain some social status from being able to discuss...
...first photos of a famous baby are like Incan gold to paparazzi. What's a star to do? BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE sold snaps of Shiloh Nouvel for millions and gave the moolah to children's charities. They're not alone. Kevin Federline and Britney Spears took the reported $500,000 they got for the first photos of son Sean Preston and donated it to victims of Hurricane Katrina in Brit's home state, Louisiana...
Another tip: signing yourself up for a campus job will not only keep you mindful of your expenses but will also prevent you from daily ATM withdrawals. Even if it’s making just $30 a week, that can be moolah that’s not taken directly out of your bank account for dinner and a movie with a special someone...
Mitch Albom, who has made grown men cry--and made a bundle of moolah--with such earnest fare as The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is in publishing purgatory. In his column in the Detroit Free Press, he wrote of two ex-Michigan State basketballers cheering at their alma mater's Final Four game. Trouble is, they weren't there. Albom filed his column before the game even started. He apologized, and his paper promised an investigation. Uh-oh. What if he really spent his Wednesdays with Morrie...