Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...
...being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped out in the crash, but all told the Fund gave away more than twice the original $900,000 principal...
...antitank gun (which, for want of a better piece, counted as effective in these maneuvers). As Kidwell disappeared around the bend they resighted their gun to point at the woods across the road. The trouble would probably come from there. It did, within two minutes, heralded by the splintering crash of fences, the shrieking whine of green trees torn apart...
...want the divorce, went right on living with Korda till just before he wed Miss Oberon. Victor Mature, 26, Gertrude Lawrence's dream-Adonis in Lady in the Dark, married Martha Stephenson Kemp, 22-year-old widow of Band Leader Hal Kemp, who was killed in an auto crash last December. Hillbilly Canary Judy Canova, 24, married Corporal James H. Ripley in Honolulu. Two days later she Clippered back to Hollywood, after the groom had been tossed in the guardhouse for going A.W.O.L...
...Born Philip Manwaring, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, transportation Tycoon Morton F. Plant, who left him $15,000,000. Divorce from Cinemactress Constance Bennett cost him a $1,000,000 settlement, divorce from Big Game Huntress Edna Dunham a fifth as much, an auto crash with Showgirl Helene Jesmer $75,000. His third wife, ex-Showgirl Marjorie King, survives as his widow...