Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another paragraph, "Over in rich, idle, Hollywood, one lone building, the Masonic Temple, stood drunkenly. As if enraged by such impertinence, the hurricane struck again." While the storm did come again with renewed force, it certainly left more than a lone building. Many buildings of sound construction, including the Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood Hills Hotel and many others suffered only minor injury, such as roofs blown off, glass broken, and ornamentations damaged...
...York State, populous, rich, these dancers are labeled "signifi-cant." So, last week, delegates and reporters scurried to Syracuse where the Democrats held their nominating convention- and to Madison Square Garden in Manhattan where the Republicans assembled. Both parties had everything well oiled. Somebody opened the session with a prayer, somebody made a keynote speech, somebody produced the platform, somebody read it, almost everybody thought it was fine. On the second day the Standard Bearers were nominated, seconded many times, voted upon mechanically. So were the lesser lights on the tickets. People were happy, long-winded, subject to conventional cheering...
...years trustee of the Jefferson Medi cal College and Hospital, Philadelphia, suggested that wealthy patrons endow hospitals sufficiently so that these could afford to charge patients only $2 daily. "Probably 80% of the people may be classed as people of moderate means. The other 20% is divided between the rich...
...tongs and curled the hair of this saucebox as she desired it; her friends came to me; soon I opened a new store; in two years Nellie Melba was among my customers. Four years ago the barbers of Paris erected a statue of me. I am a very rich...
Author Dobie "devoted his daily hours to insurance" until he was 35. Now, at 45, he has written a book most of which is as beautiful as the eyes of Adrienne, clear as the amber of her mother's eyes, rich as the "wine-dark sea" of her father's. The John Day Company (TIME, Sept. 20) has begun its publishing career with a brilliant novel...