Word: rich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what paper would thus dare to flout rich, potent, organized hat makers? Yet hat making (especially straw hat making) is a leading Italian industry...
...delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good will to men!" As her fame spread, there came offers for lecture tours. For some time her objections to the theatre kept her from mounting a stage of any sort. Finally she saw opportunity to gain temperance converts, accepted speaking offers, became rich. When she spoke in burlesque theatres she considered herself to be "like Christ among the publicans." In 1903 she tried, unsuccessfully, to see President Roosevelt; then entered the Senate Gallery, sold miniature hatchets. When she rushed into the Senate Chamber shouting: "Treason, anarchy, conspiracy-Discuss these!" she was arrested, fined...
...Because, when he had become a rich man from his chemical discoveries, he had served the royalist government of guillotined Louis XVI, by improving methods of farming, by working on the metric system of measurements, and by simplifying the collection of royal taxes...
...Boyd? Scribner's ($2.50). Jimmy Eraser, son of a Georgia landowner and grandson of the hero of Author Boyd's loud-beaten Drums, hears tales from his uncle of the past glory of their clan. He sees one day the enameled fields and the mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money with which...
...Breed '29, F. N. Rich '29, and J. L. Carogana 1L. will compose the Executive Committee...