Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emanuel Madruzzo, "Cardinal and Archbishop of Trent and Secular Prince of the Trentino" had "a suite of 500 gentlemen splendidly attired in rich and bizarre liveries" and "squandered his wealth, since in him the race [of Madruzzo] would be extinguished and the principality left without an heir...
Philip Peabody, retired rich Bostonian, when he reached Manhattan on the Scandinavian-American Frederik VII, completed his 114th trans-Atlantic voyage. Two-hundred trips is his goal...
...same thing drove Dempsey out. Dempsey is a rich man now, but he knows that if he ever fought me again his money wouldn't be worth a nickel...
Thirty-three years ago he quit Elmira and advanced confidently upon Manhattan, to the offices of a Frank Richardson, then acting as the New York representative of many a country newspaper. Young Block became adept in garnering rich advertising contracts. By 1898 he felt able to start out in business for himself. Ten years later, he bought the Newark Star-Eagle at a receiver's sale for $235,000. It required all his savings in cash, some...
...been permissible, though not desirable, for women to wear the same gown at a luncheon or at an afternoon tea, at dinner or at a ball. This year, pre-War distinctions are again in evidence. With more money to spend on clothes, the well-dressed woman will have rich and luxurious gowns for formal wear...