Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...values in life as in teaching, are certain to suffer some strange sea-change. Some of us today have random personal memories upon which these legends will be built; the tributes that his ninety-two years of useful life called forth will be food for still others. The something rich and strange that his name will be to future generations in the Yard will grow even more from the personal spirit than must forever live after him that spirit which was his own and which he made Harvard...
...would relieve the speculator situation. There would be none to pay high prices for tickets The idle rich don't get up at dawn...
They say that Liberty, five-cent fiction weekly of Col. Robert R. McCormick and Major Joseph Medill Patterson, proud overlords of that opulent vulgarian, the Chicago Tribune and its get-rich-quick little grub-sister, the New York Daily News, was established as an outlet for accumulated moneys upon which the income tax was becoming burdensome. Loosely speaking it was founded to "lose money...
...oldest son, August A. Busch, took charge of the Anheuser-Busch interests. He became the active head of two large St. Louis families, the Anheusers and the Busches, who have been in close marital and business relations ever since Adolphus Busch, rich immigrant, sold grain to Eberhard Anheuser, small brewer of St. Louis, and became his partner...
...London sale, one of those dispersals of private collections of British nobility so frequent since the War, one of those sales through which Sir Joseph Duveen and others have acquired and brought to the U. S. a rather deep skimming of the cream of British art. Captain Jefferson Cohn, rich turfman (TIME, Nov. 29) had bought the house, but not the famed art collection therein, of Dowager Baroness Michelham, the house once home of the spidery-signatured Marquis of Salisbury, Britain's onetime most aristocratic Premier. The Dowager Baroness Michelham put up the art collection at public auction. International...