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Word: nabobs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AMERICAN NABOB-Holmes Alexander -Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rugged Individual | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rugged Individual | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Author Alexander, better known for biography (Aaron Burr, Martin Van Buren) has shown he can write a rousing account of the rousing Civil War period without depending on battle scenes for his excitement. American Nabob reads like a political biography full of interesting scandal. Chief figure is fictional Curtis Larkins, a wildcat country banker who modeled himself on Henry Clay and Napoleon, grabbed a mountain region full of coal and oil during the Civil War's confusion, developed it afterwards with rugged individualism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rugged Individual | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Like the English adventurers in India for whom the term nabob was invented, craggy-nosed Banker Larkins had little trouble getting his actions legalized. He never held office himself (for $100,000 in 1875 he could have been appointed Senator from West Virginia), instead let others do his dirty work. He was the biggest frog in his puddle until a bigger, ruggeder individual-spare, pale-eyed, nonfictional John D. Rockefeller-splashed down beside him. Mr. Rockefeller wanted Mr. Larkins' refineries. "The Standard Oil Company has been called a combination," said Rockefeller's envoy. "We prefer the word alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rugged Individual | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Best lines: Eleanor, welcomed by the nabob with punctilious honors, rejoining with full Flatbush skepticism: "Wuss this alia bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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