Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simian Sainta. In Denver, Mrs. Billie Shannon and her nine-year-old monkey, Skippit, entertained 23 less fortunate monkeys from the city zoo. Skippit was dressed like Santa Claus and passed out tiny wheelbarrows and toy washboards to his colleagues. In Kansas, whose citizens may legally consume nothing stronger than 3.2 beer, police poured $25,000 worth of whiskey down a drain. But elsewhere liquor sales-particularly of bonded Bourbon-boomed. An Indianapolis liquor dealer contrived a new kind of window display -a Nativity scene set up in a Haig & Haig carton...
Jinnah now lives in lonely splendor at Government House in Karachi. Frosty and aloof as ever, he keeps his advisers and ministers at a respectful distance. His constant companion, and only close friend, is his 54-year-old sister Fatima. After their parents died, when Fatima was nine, Jinnah brought her up. She was a dentist for a year in Bombay; her first patient was brother Mohamed. She gave up dentistry to look after him when his wife died...
...first salvo, he charged that "in the past nine years Behn and his board of directors . . . have received more than $3,700,000 in salaries and fees while the . . . stockholders . . . have received nothing." l.T. & T. had not paid a dividend in 14 years, he pointed out, even though it showed profits in eleven of those years. Last year, when almost everyone else was making money, l.T. & T. lost $10 million. How, demanded Ryan, could the management explain away such a record...
...sent for,' said the Kid pleasantly, 'to meet the Governor at nine o'clock. Is he here...
...earned Wallace only $300 in the first seven months. But nine years later, in 1889, 400,000 copies had been sold. In 1913, Sears Roebuck ordered a million copies. Just before the play was produced, Charles Frohman said to Producers Klaw & Erlanger: "Boys, I'm afraid you're up against it-the American public will never stand for Christ and a horse race in the same show." The play ran for 21 years...