Word: cullen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain man despite a flair for fancy clothes, Roy Cullen found that he had more money than he knew what to do with. He built himself a big house in Houston's swank River Oaks section, installed indirect lighting and expensive bric-a-brac and landscaped it with costly azalea bushes, each with its own sprinkling system. He provided generously for his four married daughters and gave $10 million to the University of Houston and local hospitals...
...that Texans boast. It was probably a Texan who was so tall that he had to climb a ladder to shave; it was undoubtedly his brother who was so small that it took two men and a boy to see him. So when they heard that Hugh Roy Cullen gave away upwards of $100 million one night last week, Texans recognized a true son of the Lone Star State...
Sixty-five-year-old Roy Cullen started life as a $3-a-week underling in the office of a San Antonio cotton broker. In 1911, he switched to real estate and then...
Like legendary Paul Bunyan, Roy Cullen found a way to make money out of dry fields. Paul Bunyan had hitched his blue ox, Babe, to a dry hole, pulled the hole out of the ground, and sawed it up for pestholes. Cullen's method was simpler -and more effective. When he saw a dry hole he just drilled deeper...
...rard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years...