Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Walker had been chosen to make the big speech and accept the memorial for the nation partly because he had helped raise the money, partly because friends of Governor Smith were influential in the memorial association, partly because James John Walker, regarded as a "wisecracker" at home, is accounted a popular orator in the South...
...Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell, married, grown old, the mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen's Croquet Ground...
Artists, especially U. S. artists, more especially U. S. artists with radical theories, are often heard to whine and mumble because men with money, i. e., art patrons, prefer to buy the works of "old masters." These whining, muttering artists are to some extent justified. But what must have been their surprise, their delight mixed with dismay, to learn, last week, that an anonymous art patron, i. e., a man with money, had spent $41,000 for 32 of the works of John Sloan, famed extant U. S. painter, president of the ultra-radical Society of Independent Artists...
...champion. James Gleason, here a cocky misogynist, is his manager. When the manager goes away, Actor Ray puts on a pink shirt, yellow gloves, a cane, and spats, marries. Instead of taking on the champion, he takes on expenses and a gambling brother-in-law. At last, for quick money he fights the champion with a broken hand, and is, of course, beaten up. His wife had given him the count...
...towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...