Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton W. Gilbert, "belongs to the line of watchdogs of the Treasury who growl when anyone asks for appropriations. . . . He looks gnarled, like a workingman who has grown rich. And that is what he is-a stonecutter who has become a millionaire." There was another, however, who had already started for the place. This was Nicholas Longworth, 14 years younger than Mr. Madden, but co-equal with him in 18 years' service in the House...
...whether the production of Slavically mournful, not quite "eqochmaking," plays is really of greater importance than, say, the foundation of a new scholarship or the sorely needed endowment of a laboratory or a professorship in one of the branches of the arts. Harvard is not an overwhelmingly rich college, over-endowed and able to spend as much as would be desirable in the vital business of education. And even without consideration of the financial side, is it not also a dangerous thing when a subsidiary part of the curriculum threatens to become paramount in importance? Good...
...Creighton, Chairman, Miss Joan Sullivan; J. W. Belser, Miss Lamora Gleason; D. G. Casto, Miss Edna Applebee; J. H. Gebelein, Miss Polly Smith; C. W. Gillies, Miss Marjorie Sullivan; Francis Millet, Miss Debora Wood; G. S. Rich, Miss Claudia Hencken; A. E. Simonson, Miss Jane Murray; J. V. D. Southworth, Miss Martha Collins; Harold Wagar, Miss Barbara Backus; C. P. Morehouse, Miss Sally Hardeastle; Mr. Henry Kass, Miss A. F. Merian...
...Opposite him is one Jetta Goudal. In her first leading part, she quite steals the strength of the picture. She is small and seems to resemble a combination of Marilyn Miller and Mary Hay. The picture plays about on the East Side (Manhattan) amid the slums, and pawnshops. The rich man from uptown marries the poor girl from Hester Street and the audience has only a fairly good time watching...
...Graphic closed its crossword contest, commenced awarding munificent prizes to smirking victors, began a new, a different sort of contest, which was immediately copied by the New this was to win rich rewards by writing the last lines of incomplete limericks (TIME, Feb. 23). Forthwith, letters, telegrams, telephone messages, began to rain upon the editors of the Bronx Home News. "Help us to write the last line and skin the Graphic." This is what the Public wanted the Bronx editors to do. The editors sat in consultation. One man's version of the last line of a limerick...