Word: nouveaux
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Osage Indians did not always ride in limousines, squat in blankets among Grand Rapids furniture and generally give a pathetically good imitation of nouveaux riches the world over. Long before chance made them oil tycoons they had a Golden Age. It is not of the prehistoric greatness of the Osages that Author Mathews writes, nor of their bloated capitalist days, but of the time when, still poor and still noble, they lived a benevolently restricted life on the Osage reservation...
...hands every day. Together they formed Romeike & Curtice, a clipping service which continues in the hands of Curtice's heirs. In 1884 Brother Henry opened shop in the old Judge Building in lower Manhattan. Practically from the start the business prospered on the personal vanity of socialites, nouveaux riches, politicians, tycoons and stage folk. For a time "romeiked" was a common word meaning "compiled in scrapbooks." If Brother Henry was not rich when he died in 1903, it was due to his lavish scale of living...
...story is concerned with the rise in filmland first of the Kellys through the efforts of the daughter Kitty through the efforts of the daughter Kitty (June Clyde) as an actress and then of the Cohens when the son Melville becomes a theme song writer. The Kellys, as nouveaux riches, fancy themselves disgraced by the Cohens, who follow them to Hollywood. Miss Edna May Oliver could do this to perfection but the Kellys merely blunder through in their usual way, while Kitty, in the pursuit of her art, makes burlesque melodramas for which there is no apparent reason except...
...newspaper lore is the legend of a young cartoonist, flouted by the parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with...
...debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...