Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of North Dakota outlaws bird dogs. Imagine the bird hunter deprived of his dog! . . . What was a people's sport, in which all the people, irrespective of fortune, participated, tends to become the sport of the rich...
...that during what promises to be a long run on Broadway. Bob Benchley will take it for a ride, and it will deserve all the ride it gets at the hands of that humorist. It takes itself as seriously as possible, and like the well-behaved, stupid child of rich parents that it is it will go a long...
Alfred Salmon, rich and potent Chairman of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. ("the Childs restaurants of Britain") and a director of Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd. (Empire famed tobacconists) : "I declared last week: 'Most young men lose great opportunities because they insist on congenial hours of work, enabling them to devote a good deal of time to sport; profitable businesses, such as hotel and restaurant-keeping are surrendered to foreigners by sport-ridden British youths who wish to be free to play games in the evening...
Last week teemed with emotion, activity, for His Holiness, Pope Pius XI. First arrived at the Vatican three Mexican hierarchs. To them His Holiness spoke words, of comfort and hope, promised to give Mexico a rich ostensorium which he received at the recent beatification of the French Revolutionary martyrs (TIME, Oct. 25). Next, a magnificent procession wound its way through crowded streets-towards the Coliseum, ancient centre of Paganism. In its midst, borne aloft on the shoulders of the faithful, was a huge cross. Made of wood, it contains pieces of olive trees from Gethsemane. It had been blessed...
...Buddha so far forget himself as to grind his teeth in Nirvana. The series of episodes, themselves, are intriguing one-act playlets, little snapshots through the ages, each sufficient unto itself, the sum total going to make up an unusually superficial outline of history. Antoinette Perry's rich voice frequently makes the wooden dialogue come to life. Hugh Buckler's virile characterizations also help...