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Word: paid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest-paid player in baseball, had said in advance that he would give the money gifts from his hero-worshiping fans to charity. But there was a lot more than money ($7,500) in the gifts that were showered on him: two automobiles, a motorboat, two television sets, a radio, two watches, a $100 hat, an electric blanket, shirts, ties, a watch chain, potatoes, oranges, walnuts, lima beans, homemade lemonade, 300 quarts of ice cream. After the speeches, Joe bit his lip and let the tears run down his cheeks. "I thank the good Lord that he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fantastic Finish | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every man in the band. Cut out the monkey business. Just give the people what they paid to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Same Old Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...brisk morning last March, two ladies of serious demeanor paid a call at Brooklyn College. It was important that their mission be kept a secret. So, stating only that they were members of the Public Education Association, they bustled into a large building, hurried down a corridor, and quietly slipped into back-row seats in a history classroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...notes on the clarinet to set the mood for his act in Holiday on Ice, James Caesar Petrillo soaked him $17 for a card in his A.F.L. American Federation of Musicians. Blake, already a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Variety Artists, mainly a vaudeville union, paid to keep Petrillo's musicians from walking out on the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Render unto Caesar... | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Bass Fiddler Lee Norman, a member of Petrillo's union, was no actor. But five months ago, when he began to act as master of ceremonies as well as fiddle at Harlem's Regent Theater, the vaudeville union socked him $50 for a card. Fiddler Norman also paid, but Petrillo called out the orchestra and closed the act. Said Petrillo: "I am being mercenary . . . We are going to get back that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Render unto Caesar... | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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