Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter does not blush."-ED. *An error, the name is "Phipps."-ED. "The question was: "How did Judith, the Biblical character, murder General Holofernes ?" And the answer: "Judith murdered General Holofernes by cutting off his head."-ED. *The question was: "Why do nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers and cabaret girls object strenuously to the Rockefeller carillon in New York and to the proposed Crane carillon in Chicago ?" And the correct answer: "Nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers, cabaret girls, etc., object to carillons because the carillons disturb their hard-earned Sunday morning slumbers...
Bishop Diaz is secretary of the Mexican Episcopate and has long denounced President Calles for trying to subordinate the Roman Catholic Church to the Mexican Government. President Calles?solicitous for his poor, degraded, mean electorate?wants to cut down on the vested interests of the comparatively rich Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate...
...Henry Ward Beecher, Harlan F. Stone, Frederick H. Gillett, Robert Lansing, Charles E. Mitchell, Joseph B. Eastman, Henry C. Hall, Frank J. Goodnow, he is an Amherst man. Unlike them, he was never graduated, because in his sophomore year he decided he did not want to be just a "rich man's son." He left college; got a job in a railroad office. Later Amherst gave him its Master of Arts degree. That was after he had become a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and had shown himself a master of finance...
...Rita. Who would be likely to open a Manhattan theatre of dreamy elliptical architecture, hung with gorgeous tapestries, rich with color? Florenz Ziegfeld. In it he presented no Follies last week, but a musical comedy with fresh, feathery ballet dancers and a chorus that made strong men sigh. Rio Rita had a plot-something to do with oil leases and statesmen. A plot however, is mere parsley when the eyes and ears are well feasted. Pinwheel. Expressionism went on a debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled...
When he first went to work as a solicitor for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. five years ago, Haley Fiske Jr. met some glum life insurance solicitors. His father, Haley Fiske Sr., was president of the company. Some salesmen sneered: smart son, going to work for rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during...