Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names Bonn Byrne makes vivid people- deep-chested Barnabas; Caiaphas, the blue-horned high priest; chaste Thekla, the Greek maiden who followed Saul in boy's dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book to read much more slowly than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding grapes, quiet grey eyes, legs "supple as the bending barley," and all the gems and moving animals and rare wonders of the world-a man that should play a tall harp is telling a deep epic. The Author's scholarship, of which...
...Churchill. Therefore, because Chancellor Churchill has just presented his new budget (TIME, April 18) onetime Chancellor Snowden hobbled in last week, like a malignant witch doctor and rapped seering words: "The Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] is a costly luxury. . . and a ghastly failure. . . . "His first† budget was a rich man's budget, his second- was that of a profligate bankrupt, and this, his third, is a combination of both with jugglery and deceit added .- "I believe that the present budget offers us at best but a temporary reprieve by means of artful dodges. . . . I predict that, even...
...TIME, May 11, 1925. At the time Chancellor Churchill had just re-established the pound on a gold standard, and reimposed the McKenna duties on foreign imports, a reversal of Mr. Snowden's policy, felt by him to advantage chiefly the rich...
...surroundings, Dr. Gehring sent them about their business, cured, happy. No stigma of nervous exhaustion remained.... Today Bethel is as calm and placid as Dr. Gehring found it 32 years ago when he went there to quiet his nerves. One of Dr. Gehring's neighbors at Bethel is rich William Bingham II, also of Cleveland. William Bingham II gave away $200,000 last week. Like the $200,000 donation by J. P. Morgan a month before, the money went to equip an entire floor of the new Neurological Institute, now1 abuilding in Manhattan. Mr. Morgan's gift...
...California young Philip D. Armour I made money ditching water to placer mines. In a rough-&-tumble life, he was rougher than most and tumbled with the sturdiest. After four years he went home to Cazenovia, rich and restless; then to Milwaukee, where? he went into pork packing with John Plankington, after whom the Plankington Hotel there was named, It's bartenders used to be adept at mixed drinks; its present chef prepares a capon just a little less appetizingly than does the chef of the Winthrop Hotel at Tacoma, Wash...