Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions, he was administrator of an Oriente cane plantation and likes to recall how he spurned his chances then to enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army as an infantry private. He was smart enough to study shorthand, which enabled him to win a competitive army examination and become a court stenographer with the rank of sergeant. Four years ago Sergeant Batista was scribbling obscurely at courts martial when...
...Governor Hoffman, two to Hoffman's secretary. One of the alleged letters went so far as to suggest that Mr. Oursler might have conspired the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, intending to glorify Bernarr Macfadden by having him pay a big reward for the return of the child and to enrich Oursler by collecting part of the reward...
...duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...
...torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall its audiences, enrich its producers and remind Hollywood that U. S. history, no less than that of France, Mexico and Britain, contains rich veins of screen material which deserve to be mined by able writers. The Milky Way (Paramount). No. 2 comedian of silent pictures, almost as rich and famed as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd...
...France, despoil Paris of its riches & treasures, while you shot the brave Republicans or left them to starve. Would you not like to do with those that disagree with you, as la Maintenon & her Jesuit allies did when they exiled the Huguenots, sending them to found new industries & enrich foreign countries? Or the St. Bartholomew's Massacre? Would it not be better to read solely Lamartine, A. de Vigny & Chateaubriand, who gave the English such good ideas to think up for vilifying the Republic & Napoleon? . . . You admire Hitler whose intentions towards France are so evident he has caused Britain...