Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silver rush at Virginia City; of how he had drunk and gambled away his takings; about how his partner, Billy Clark, had been more sensible, saved his metal, gone into politics, retired as one of the country's wealthiest men with money to burn "down East" on rich living, art and suchlike...
...middle age who, in 1295 A. D., returned to their native Venice after an absence of 26 years, so changed that they had to beat their way into their own house past forgetful relatives. They drove doubt from their listeners' minds by many changes of rich raiment during a banquet they straightway held, and by slitting seams of the rags they had arrived in and pouring forth heaps of jade, diamonds, rubies and other stones of the Far East. Even then they were not fully believed, and from the numbers of men and the distances they described, their audiences became...
...wealth Mr. Coolidge thus informs us, is the measure of our faith. We are rich because we are honest. The entire structure of industrial America is builder upon ultimate spiritual realities and only because it is so builded, does it endure. So speaks the man who told Europe that if it had conducted its affairs as intelligently and efficiently as we have conducted ours, it would be as happy and prosperous...
Married. Fred W. Fitch, 56, rich hair-tonic tycoon, onetime barber, to Gertrude Westberg, 38, his foster daughter and onetime chief hair-tonic bottler, at Des Moines...
...went about that task, and thus to comprehend how Lord & Thomas got in a position to inject all sorts of things into your life-Palmolive soap, Quaker Oats, Lucky Strike cigarets, Kotex,* among other things-you need a picture of the ruddy-faced German-Jew who, as a rich man's 15-year-old son in Galveston, Tex., writhed at the thought of being known as "old Lasker's son Al"; who got a job writing dramatic criticism for a Galveston newspaper, then cut loose for Chicago to be office boy in an advertising agency...