Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy played second fiddle so well that he was soon solo violinist of the original Roxy Gang. He graduated from gangdom...
...convicts from Devil's Island who want to fight on our team, and the plot is almost unwound before the film gets around to the actual passage to Marseille. We can't remember having heard the story before: it's about a French freighter carrying a valuable shipment of nickel, and also carrying fascists and democrats who struggle for control of the freight...
...performance. Thomas Mitchell, veteran of many fine character portrayals, is poorly cast as Ned Buntline, the newspaperman who made Cody a household word in the East. He is unable to do his usual convincing job. Linda Darnell makes a better looking Indian than the one on the pre-Jefferson nickel, but unfortunately is not seen much in the picture...
...Manhattan OPA moved to give the rich an even break. Inspectors cracked down on 73 eating places. Most were soda fountains charging stenographers a nickel too much for a ham sandwich. But also reprimanded was Café Chambord, last Manhattan stronghold for those who must have their pâté de foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle...
...mildness was only apparent. Soon he was referring to Little Steel's gain under the formula tailored for it as "a lousy nickel" an hour. Under the same percentage formula, building tradesmen got a 22½?-an-hour increase, he said. What was fair about that? Soon, well warmed up, Murray was speaking of Miami-and-Mex-ico-tanned executives daring to suggest that steelworkers are "getting too much money." He talked of the "wise men, fat men, men who are enjoying...