Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston officeworker, snatching a hasty and economical midday lunch at a Thompson's restaurant where food is balanced on the broad-arm of a one-armed chair and 50c buys abundant calories to sustain life, has all unknowingly lunched with the Governor of his Commonwealth. For Governor Fuller, rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking a job in a rubber factory...
Proportionate to the wealth of the U. S. and that of Japan, John Pierpont Morgan has been reputed comparatively less rich than Mme. Yone Suzuki, 73, "the wealthiest woman in Japan." Awful was the catastrophe last week when this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan...
Iwajiro Suzuki, her late husband, inherited a prospering merchant business and died a rich man; but it was his general manager, Kaneko Naokishi, who emboldened Mme. Suzuki to embark on a succession of daring financial coups...
...Author. "Jig" Cook's genius for play, rich and unashamed, was the thing that made him a great "spiritual communist." When there was little wine left in the bowl, "Give it all to me," he cried, "and I guarantee to intoxicate all the rest of you." Susan Glaspell may puzzle folk who would have withheld their share of the wine. Just when this radiant book, dedicated to "Jig" Cook's children (she has none), is published, she has remarried...
Clare, who has married well, dresses her, takes her to polo matches, rubs away the dust of Sussex and the bloom of spontaneity. Percival Fream, rich, meticulous, impotent, gives her first a diamond ring, then a marriage which includes all the luxuries save one. Mary gives dances behind the bright windows and in the wide gardens of Hill House but she cannot escape the knowledge that, for a steady diet, potatoes are more satisfying than candied rose leaves...