Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capable business executive. In his impressive office in Seattle's Teamsters' Hall, he flips through correspondence at split-second speed and barks out advice and orders to every point of his realm by long-distance telephone. He drives to work in a 1947 Cadillac. Although he is paid $25,000 a year, he lives modestly in the same five-room Ravenna District bungalow in which he and his wife started housekeeping...
...save himself time & trouble, Houston Oilman W. W. West took to parking his car in the bus zone in front of his office, forced bus passengers to alight in the street, cheerfully paid a daily $5 parking fine. Total to date...
...whole thing was something of a tragi-comedy in the eyes of the law. At about 10 a.m. Monday morning in Dedham district court a still-sad Harvard speedster stood before the judge who understandingly, with big unconcealed smile and laughter, agreed that penalty enough had already been paid and the case should be filed without fine. . . . Sect. 47, Row MM, Seats...
...United States State Department paid little attention to the case. Frederick Ayer, security officer of the U.S. Mission to Greece, was detailed to protect Polk's wife while she was being interrogated by the Greek police. He frequently was absent from the questioning sessions and made few other efforts to intervene in the case...
Penny-a-Liner. Dirty, ragged, hideously misprinted, sometimes illustrated with pictures that had nothing to do with the text, the penny-dreadfuls had many of the virtues of naked imagination, all the vices of standardized hack work. Their authors, paid by the line (less than a penny), took care that each scream, each gush of blood, even each sentence, received a line all to itself-and thereby laid the foundation of the clipped, brusque speech of the contemporary thriller. Their immediate fascination and influence were enormous. Charles Dickens' low-life reflected their high-spots, Wilkie Collins refined their eeriness...