Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year may be derived from this source. . . . The proposed tax does not alter the legality of betting. . . . Credit and racecourse betting are legal, while street betting is illegal?although in practice everyone can bet with impunity. In that sense, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. . . . The proposed tax is but a recognition of a condition of so-called vice from which the Exchequer has already received large sums, since the income tax and supertax naturally apply to bookmakers as to everyone else...
Despatches stated that Sir Robert had reckoned as negligible Lord Birkenhead's reputed proclivities for gaming tables, toddies and toasts of every kind. The rich shipowner was envisioned by many of his intimates as anxious to testify to his long intimacy with the potent statesman by bequeathing Wealth to Power. All Britain was a-tiptoe when the will was probated at Jersey, England, late in the week. Sir Robert left his entire fortune to his widow...
...Brien, a retired gentleman prize fighter, one-time sparring partner of Anthony Drexel Biddle, who made Stanley Ketchel look like a goat, who backed up Tommy Burns, and was knocked out in 1909 by Jack Johnson, conducts an exclusive gymnasium and reducing establishment in Manhattan. He has many rich patrons. Last week one of them, delighted with her reduction, gave a party for him. To that party was bidden the brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien?Young Jack O'Brien (born 1895)?who won decisions over Ad Wolgast, K. O. Brown and Young Erne, and who now owns...
...before the reader can quite be sure that this is all a glorious fiction, the exceedingly rich man marries the lady of desirable beauty and through the iridescent veils of their honeymoon they both come painfully to life, stumble ignorantly into knowledge...
...Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...