Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will and desire of every Harvard man to do his utmost to insure the preservation of Harvard's leadership among American universities. Since the founding of the College in 1636, this leadership has been bound up inseparably with a tradition rich in the names of great teachers and illustrious graduates. From Dunster and Mather descends an unbroken line of famous professors down to Peirce, Longfellow, Gray, Norton, Shaler, Agassiz, Palmer, James, and Briggs. Graduates like Jonathan Trumbull, John Quincy Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph H. Choate, Phillips Brooks, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, have carried throughout the civilized world Harvard thought...
...Cave Man. The advent of a rough laborer into the apartment of a lazily rich woman starts off a fair comedy film. The rest shows how she washed him up and how he knocked a lot of people down...
...Married. The typical Richard Dix comedy is out as usual. Mr. Dix plays a rich young man with a taste for fighting in night clubs. He is still strong, active and pleasing...
...days it continued-days worse than Rich Men's Panic (1901) and the dark April and May of 1920. Wall Street volume-of-trading records, set only last fall by the rising of the blister, went glimmering. The new figure was 3,734,031 shares traded, in March 3. The ticker was 52 minutes late...
...futile family escapes from the flatness of their life by getting a job as "bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character and susceptible to good looks, wants...