Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GREAT GOD BROWN - An expressionistic work by Eugene O'Neill in which a rich man appropriates the poor man's brain...
...astonishing thing he has now done-written a book of modern times with all the glamour upon it that was on Messer Marco Polo, The Wind Bloweth and his other tales of days long gone. His warmest admirers will be quickest to see that he has not done this rich thing without overdoing it occasionally-slipping over briefly into unredeemed melodrama, laying on a few too-thick bits of the Biblical locution; but in the main they will be delighted and amazed to see in this, his best work yet, the subtle operation of his gentle Irish irony, something...
Financial experts deplore the new budget's many inconsistencies and general lack of coherent plan. It represents a political compromise between the Left, which demanded the raising of additional taxes by a "capital levy" (bearing chiefly on the rich); and the Right, which called for the enactment of "indirect taxes" (affecting all classes). As the budget stands, the expenditure estimates of many departments have been scaled so low that it is doubtful if they can actually pull through the year on the sums allowed them...
...supercilious ones were, as usual, uninformed. The Ringling family has been for many years rich, refined. Of the five original brothers who started the circus, John and Charles Ringling were the ablest; their wealth, owing to wise investments in Texas oil, in Florida land, is now immense; the yearly profit of the circus, sturdy as it is, hardly exceeds the income tax of one of them. Wherever the circus stops, a private dining tent, equipped with an English butler, a polished floor, silver and glass and napery, is set up near the big top, for nobody knows when...
...Rich Writing...