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...Harvard's specialty, the nouveau riche Business School can no longer contend with the patrician. Law School for this honor. It belongs to neither of them. Now that the fact is established, it seems strange no one had thought of Landscape Architecture before. Bald headed barbers have always been the leading authorities on how to keep the chevelure long and dlustrous. In like manner bachelors and spinsters are the leading lights upon the care and feeding of infants. So too, the School, or Department, or Course--whichever it is--of Landscape Architecture is Harvard's specialty, as the beauty...
...countries have seen more violent anti-Semitic outbursts since the War than Rumania. Jews have acquired great strength in this nouveau riche country. A provocative incident...
...vigor with which these nouveau aristocrats are supporting their cause, however, makes up for any lack of ancient prestige: M. Leon Daudet called upon his twenty thousand associates to begin a royalist revolution "tonight, from this moment, from the gate of Paris." Possibly the Duc d'Orleans, nominal King of France, who is now residing in England is not aware of this enthusiasm, for he has not yet crossed the Channel to claim his throne...
Otto Wolff, a nouveau riche, who controls the Phoenix and Rheinstahl mines...
...gratifying task to ascend to the level of personal performance. In the order of their appearance, J. McK., Kimball, as the hotel clerk, was perfectly terrible, but you couldn't possibly get sore with him about it. D. A. Williams, as Byron Victory Dawes, the head of the nouveau riche family and head of the suspender-trust, carried on in a fine fervor of unsubstantial middle-aged choler throughout. Mrs. Dawes, played by B. S. Cogan, carried on in a fine fervor of substantial middle-aged choler throughout, and sang very pleasantly indeed. B. K. Little, as their daughter...