Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even after ex-Professor Symington started making money, at law and in business ventures, the flow was erratic. To supplement the family income during lean spells, young Stu got a paper route. One summer he sold bottled spring water from a wagon pulled by his dog. At eleven he attended his first presidential nominating convention-the historic, tumultuous Baltimore Democratic Convention that nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1912-as a vendor of peanuts, popcorn, tobacco and chewing...
...American Bar Association, urged Symington to run for the Senate in the 1952 election. "I don't think the world is in as bad shape as you do," Lashly told him. "But if it is, you have no right to go back to the pleasure of making money...
...gift of $100,000 from the Class of '79, along with $75,000 supplied by the H.A.A., provided the money needed for the project, which would cost at least ten times as much today. A new stadium had long been the dream of those concerned with Harvard athletics, and it took only the $100,000 to start construction immediately...
...rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose interest. Jacques cannot be really interested, because the money she thinks her greatest charm squashes his masculine ego. He covets an impoverished cigarette girl. All the time that Kautner emphasizes this self-made chasm, however, he seems to suggest that deceptions actually are inherent to allure. Hence the comedy--thus the tragedy...
...asked Congress and the public not to judge the broadcasting industry by disclosures that many big money quiz contests had been rigged...