Word: dime
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...Missouri opened the doors of the prison where he was serving a life sentence most deservedly, and the Missouri House of Representatives elected him to be a doorkeeper as its share of official tribute to the heroism of life on the highway. Both were made the central figures of dime novels, eagerly devoured by hundreds of thousands of boyish minds which thereupon became fired to commit murder and robbery and be handed down to posterity as the rivals of the "James boys...
...task of such merit. Advancing at its present high standard, there is no reason why its name should not reach to every corner of civilization, as that of its predecessor in England has already done. Printing has made wide-spread culture possible; it has also brought us the dime novel and the news-stand magazine; but its final vindication, will go unchallenged so long as there is in existence an extensive machinery for the publication of that rara avis--a good book...
...Greene Halleck speaks somewhere of "Seals that close the pestilence". Although he uses the phrase in quite another sense, these words may fittingly be applied to the Christmas Seals now on sale in practically every public place throughout the country. We may not think when we plank down our dime or quarter that the sale of these stamps does a really great work. As every member of Freshman Hygiene is told, one out, of ten deaths--and that is a pretty large ratio, considering the long list of fatal maladies--is due to tuberculosis. Moreover, the disease can usually...
...might be led to think that a play along such lines would either read like an essay or flare like a dime novel. As a matter of fact, "Inheritors" does neither. The author, through interesting characterization and many well-known tricks of stage-craft, manages to hold the attention and tickle the mental pallet throughout its entire length. So that when he is through, the reader suddenly finds that he has swallowed a moral pill almost without knowing it. And therein lies the charm...
...make him drink". Forcefully to implant the recalcitrant lad in the midst of a pile of "classics" is likely to be fatal. He must be nursed along from old tastes to new. There are, fortunately, plenty of books possessing the intensity of action of the "dime novel" together with that cleverness of style which somehow creates an atmosphere of reality lacking in the latter. Men like Kipling, Mark Twain, and, above all, Stevenson will almost infallibly gain the attention of the most rebellious youth and give him a degree of pleasure which henceforth makes him vaguely dissatisfied with anything less...