Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example of the U. S. tourists until he finally sagged down op the deck in utter exhaustion, refusing food and whining in alarm at the large, low, red disc of the Midnight Sun. On the return journey, when night first descended, its coming was greeted by Boarhound Nero with rich, prolonged, joyous baying...
...have been together 50 years," said a voice. "Fifty years of invention and achievement. We have shared defeat and success, discouragement and triumph. You have in that time made me a universal messenger of happiness and education to rich and poor. This is my 50th birthday and I have a favor to ask. I want to hear again from your own lips those immortal phrases which you spoke to me half a century ago." So another voice replied: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure...
...method would be to call at the office of a rich citizen and then take six simple steps: 1) offer him a drink out of a bottle of real "Old Parr" whiskey; 2) assure him that many another bottle of "Old Parr" whiskey, smuggled in on Pullman trips from Canada, could be secured at $6 for each quart bottle; 3) meet the rich citizen at an appointed place; 4) deposit in his automobile four cases of real old shoes, bricks, rocks, broken glass and garbage; 5) take from his hand $285 in payment thereof; 6) vanish...
Engaged. The divorced onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, originally prominent Miss Millicent Rogers of Manhattan; to a rich Argentinean scion, Arthur Perlata Ramos, of Buenos Aires...
Married. John A. Perdicaris, nephew of that Ion Perdicaris whose capture by the late Moroccan bandit lord, Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli, created an international stir in 1904;- to Miss Eunice Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio; at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Manhattan. He, a rich tobacco importer of Manhattan, Paris and Venice, hastened to sail for Europe last week with his bride...