Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often been charged that a very large majority of Yale's members come from the wealthy families of the country, and the sole purpose of the questions regarding family income and so forth, was to discover whether Yale is really a rich man's college. The authorities point out that privacy will be maintained through keeping the identity of the author of each questionnaire a secret, the documents themselves carrying numbers in stead of names...
When he found Nina Michaud, she fulfilled his deepest nature, gave him freely a rich love that was a whole way of life. But his ancestors poisoned his happiness. The more Nina was his, the less inclined he was to introduce her to his mother. The old Corsey servants were enough to remind him that she was only a poor artist's daughter, that she lived in the wrong part of town, that Cor seys had never paraded ? never thought of marrying! ? their mistresses...
...worship of Dirt-Farmer Swedge of Long Island, all unravels to the old copybook line about him who hesitates. In his wisdom and mercy, Author Pascal makes manifest some reasons for Cynthia's hesitations ? unnatural home life with her divorced actor-father; the enervating effect of life among rich school girls; a sophisticated girl's natural fear of being prematurely pigeonholed by life. But these extenuations do not suffice to save Cynthia from standing indicted for modernity's most prevalent shortcoming: emotional anemia induced by self-seeking and self-indulgence. The book is far too finely executed...
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...Charles Higham, rich British British advertising expert, arrived in Manhattan last week in the interests of the India Tea Growers to stimulate tea-drinking in the U.S. To the ship reporter who met him, he amiably talked about painting, discussed the work of Alfred E. Orr, young U.S. painter, whom he financed. "Orr looks like a greater man than Rembrandt," Sir Charles remarked; said that he had rented for the painter the studio of the late John Singer Sargent, No. 31 Tite Street, Chelsea; told how Mr. Orr derived the inspiration for his greatest masterpiece, a painting of "the typical...