Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director of a bank and of several business corporations, collects signatures, likes-to watch athletes. When her famed curls were shortened to a bob last year in Manhattan by Barber Charles Bock, she put them in an envelope and took them home. Some of her pictures: The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Heart of the Hills, Pollyanna, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Tess of the Storm Country, Little Annie Roomy, My Best Girl. Syncopation (Radio-Keith-Orpheum). By this time even rural communities must find the separation, due to a third party's intrigue, of a team-of dancing partners...
...tour through English factory towns is an august, frock-coated, slant-eyed Trade Delegation from the rich Chinese province of Manchuria. Last week while visiting the extensive Longbridge Works at Birmingham, where Sir Herbert Austin turns out his trig, seven h. p. "Baby Austins" in thousands, Chairman T. Y. Wang of the Delegation said...
...fortnight, Feng remained steadfast, and when definite confirmation of this reached Hankow, last week, the house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north bank of the Yang-tze-kiang, last week, the absconding rebel "Generals" collected a force of uncertain strength on the south bank, to which they had fled, and President Chiang Kai-shek prepared to engage...
...Rich was Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, eldest of the great Nathaniel Bowditch's (1773-1838) eight children. The Bowditches are among the oldest of U. S. families, descended as they are from one William Bowditch who lived at Salem, Mass., from...
Louis Wiley, business manager, has been with Mr. Ochs's Times since its beginning. Carr V. Van Anda was managing editor through the paper's Great War days. He still holds the title but is virtually retired, reputed to be enormously rich, chiefly from stock ownership in the paper. Frederick T. Birchall, long with the Times, is acting managing editor. David H. Joseph, city editor, up from Kentucky, has given nearly 20 years to the paper. Beginning as police reporter, he now commands some 250 pairs of eyes and ears...