Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ride on the Fifth Avenue line, 6? on other privately owned lines, 7? on city-owned lines. On some buses he put the extra penny (or pennies) in the coin box, on some he handed it to the driver, on others he dropped it in a special tray. He paid 6? to transfer to the subway from a private line, 5? from a city line, and could not transfer to the subway at all from the Fifth Avenue line. For a transfer from a subway (10?) to a bus, he paid...
...over the world, people paid tribute to the dead man. Some of the eulogists found it easier to bury the meaning of Bernadotte's murder than to praise...
Theatre Guild play of 1929, Man's Estate, which for a time paid them $1,000 a week; Bruce Gould was already working on Curtis Publishing Co.'s Saturday Evening Post when shrewd George Horace Lorimer sent the Goulds to the Journal in 1935. As Beatrice was bringing up their daughter Sesaly, she insisted on spending only three days a week at the office-and still does...
...helped win the Seals the coast league pennant with a .398 batting average and was voted the league's most valuable player. To get Joe on the Yankee string, the late Colonel Jake Ruppert paid out $25,000 (plus five other players). When Joe reported to the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg two seasons later, he had been given the biggest buildup ever given a rookie...
...slick as the two con men (John Payne and Dan Duryea) who set out to fleece a pretty, not very bright war widow (Joan Caulfield). Their plot is to persuade the lady to finance a youth center as a war memorial to her hero-husband-or rather, as a paid-up charity benefit for themselves. Their dastardly scheme is clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial package he is trying...