Word: billings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Boots & Saddle. Earlier generations of U.S. children had been exposed to this sort of thing, of course. More than one house was burned to the ground in the '90s by small boys reading Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning...
...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...became the romantic star of such films as The Volga Boatman, Two Arabian Knights, Dress Parade, earned $100,000 a year-and spent $127,000 a year. It was the era of Theda Bara, Rudolph Valentino, the fantastic low-taxed Hollywood salary and the uninhibited Hollywood way of life. Bill Boyd accumulated a mansion in Beverly Hills, a beach house at Malibu, a ranch in the coastal hills, numerous bootleggers, and-with his pals Wallace Reid, Jack Pickford, Rod La Rocque-paddled happily with the tide. He got married and divorced three more times, and once during a party bought...
Italy's postwar constitution neither approved nor forbade titles. Last December, however, the government introduced a bill instituting a new Order of Knighthood for Merit under the Italian Republic. "Ridiculous and insignificant," scoffed 82-year-old ex-Premier Francesco Nitti when the bill reached the Senate floor last week; but Nitti, it was pointed out, could afford to be disapproving-he already had 43 orders and decorations. The bill passed two-to-one in favor of more titles...
Regardless of the U.S. political maneuvering which brought him his new post, Bill O'Dwyer seemed a happy choice for a sunny job. Mexicans were complimented by his political prominence in the U.S., pleased that he is a Catholic, and tickled with his pretty wife and his appreciation of bullfighting. In the bullfighters' Café Tupinamba, a torero seriously explained, "A good fan of the bulls cannot be an imperialist."'And the ballad singers in buses and bars spread the news in a hastily composed corrido...