Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese, both subsequently electrocuted. In 1922 the head of the Hip Sings choked and fell faceforward upon the asphalt of Pell Street, Manhattan, with a bullet in his heart. Another war flickered briefly last year until it was ended by the efforts of Arbitrator Lee Kue Ying, rich merchant. Last week Ying, presumably of natural causes, perished. It was on the afternoon of his death that the wires from Boston began to crackle with Chinese communications...
...murder of a tong chief, a gunman may receive as much as $10,000; for a pawn or coolie, not more than $500. At the end of a war, the better shots are often rich men. Last week, obedient to the messages from Boston, they began business in a number of cities...
...grand grandees. Fierce caballeros bristle, melt before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
...interesting feature of the situation to British businessmen lies in the fact that U. S. films have proved, mainly unintentionally, a rich publicity and sales agent for U. S. goods abroad. In consequence, since the Baldwin Government's subsidy to the coal industry, British film producers are now demanding a similar subsidy for their business. They declare that this step is necessary if British colonies are not to be slowly but surely Americanized by our exported films...
Body changes are more spectacular. A door will be fitted for the first time next to the driver in the roadster and touring model. The Tudor (two door "coach") and the Fordor (four door sedan) will blossom respectively into "deep channel green" and "rich Windsor maroon." Heretofore all Fords have been black. All but these two models will remain so. Other "radical improvements" are: (1) inch larger steering-wheels on all models; (2) seats 4 inches closer to the ground and more ^ reclining; (3) radiators⅝ of an inch higher, and nickeled in closed models; (4) gas tanks under cowl...