Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used...
...story leaves him making political capital out of his vulgar, underbred mick of a son by his first wife (a loyal little shop girl). Author Bronson handles the return of Junior Green & wife like a straight-harmony writer, reintroducing the original theme to shade, sour and yet enrich the final chord. More, he makes the bareness of his story, the concavity of his omissions, act as a sounding board for the overtone of irony...
...another door, all knelt. As the Pope stood he spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...
...York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With Italy only one sea day beyond Paris, Il Duce expects his Italia Line will now bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan to Gibraltar will be four and a half days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris...
...These will protect not the few but the great mass of average American men and women who, I am not ashamed to repeat, have been forgotten by those in power." The Roosevelt remedies: 1) "Every effort to prevent the issue of manufactured and unnecessary securities brought out merely to enrich those who handle their sale. . . . Definite and accurate statements in respect to bonuses and commissions, investment of principal, true earnings, true liabilities, true assets." 2) "Federal power applied to the regulation of holding companies that sell securities in interstate commerce." 3) "Federal authority in the regulation of exchanges...