Word: rich
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lecturer on Public Utilities; Frederic Gallup Coburn, as lecturer on Factory Management; Herbert Beeman Dow, as lecturer on Life Insurance; Charles Chester Lane '04, as lecturer on Printing and Publishing; Harry Clinton McCarthy, as lecturer on Marketing; John Farwell Moors '83, as lecturer on Investments; Edgar Judson Rich '87, as lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Rate Making; James Willing, as lecturer on Accounting...
There are few cocktail-sippers among typical undergraduates. Those who drink do so not for the pleasure, but for the effect. It is the grand deflance of their abundant youth towards disaster. It is much as a rich man may throw away pennies, knowing that pennies make riches, but confident of the abundance of his resources...
...original play in three acts, "John Drew." Last night, however, he put his now familiar gutteral style of voice and playing into a veritable characterization of the militant old worldling with tight boots and "the most beautiful coats in London." At times it seemed little more than a rich succession of grunts, growls, "By Gads," "demnition sirs," but even out of these husky trifles a man of Mr. Drew's talented staginess can produce a characterization. Next to the star, Miss Alison Skipworth, as a fat and vulgar Lady Clavering, is most worth seeing. Mr. Charles Kennedy was exceedingly funny...
...dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past century or more, and if by chance the list includes the name of some famed man the room brings a ridiculous rental from a rich student...
...glance at the price list of Yard rooms might have proved enlightening as to the ridiculous rentals paid by rich students, and a trip through the new Freshman Dormitories might have corrected some of the ideas of this son of the young and growing West in regard to Harvard's devotion to the rickety old dormitories of a former century. The comical irritation which he shares with other Westerners over the "affectations" of our Eastern speech might have also been tempered had he but stopped to consider the counter irritation which an occasional raucousness of the Western voice often produces...