Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words were not unknown. Money was made, lost, quickly, loosely. Judge English became careless. He got into the habit of assigning lucrative bankruptcy cases to his good friend, Mr. Thomas. In court he was heard, allegedly, to curse, to refer to a man as a?. Slipshod, he never got rich, but when he needed money to pay for an automobile, Friend Thomas provided it. Enemies, easily and multitudinously created, whispered to the St. Louis Post Despatch, which, hot for a good story, spent a few thousand dollars digging up unlovely testimony. Finally, complaints reached Congress. In February, 1925, the Judiciary...
However, as last week's resume of a year's work performed in New York City* indicated, men (rich men occasionally) are helped out on necessity. Some 45,000 able travelers were aided in this way during the year. Many more incapable travelers were assisted by the alert young women on duty in Manhattan railroad stations, at the steamship docks, on Ellis Island...
After a few summers in Bayonne boarding houses, Sam is growing rich and Paula having men friends. He gets into a Chicago nail-and-wire pool, buys a Superba motor. Paula brings his middle name into play, "S. Osgood Smith." He buys Bethlehem Steel stock and some rolling mills. In the last chapters, Paula is employing their millions to make their daughter's Semitic strain fashionable enough for the Junior League. To Sam, profits are unprofitable. Even the recurrent ghost of Evelyn has become meaningless. He endows universities with an absent gesture; lets his secretaries invent his excuses; fiddles with...
...Fitzgerald will go on, writing about people, about whom he knows too much, too much that will sell quickly to the popular magazines, ever to be able to settle down, to take the bumps with the best of them. Fitzgerald is The Rich Boy of literature for whom his mistress Money must die that he may be born again...
...death, the novel involving crime and courtship, homicide, and happiness, is familiar. Since its plot departs from this head-scratching standard set up by the writers of dectective fiction. "The Blind Goddess" may amuse even experienced cynics Instead of attempting to mystify, the amiable author has Richard Devens, a rich contractor, accidentally shot by Daniel Shay, his friend and business associate, before the eyes of the reader. This subtle flattery is not unappreciated by one accustomed to being hood-winked until the concluding chapter...