Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts. What? Fraulein Stinnes shrugged. Why trouble to rehearse the details of her father's death and the titanic business crash which her brothers were powerless to avert. Clarenore Stinnes is 22, lives in the present, is rich...
Logically-minded persons thought that since the Japanese goods have already been paid for the only person about to be hurt by destroying these particular goods is the Chinaman owner. They recalled that a shrewder thrust against Japan is being made by rich Chinamen in many parts of the world who are reported to be speculating again the Japanese yen in such fashion as may cause it to become seriously depressed on international exchange...
...they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock driller dies of silicosis, tuberculosis, or both...
...frail wind moved under dark skies, ruffling the water of Oyster Bay, L. I., and filling the sails of some six-metre boats owned by rich men. Slowly the little fleet beat toward a buoy close to a sandy bluff, rounded the buoy, sailed back to the Seawanhaka Club where at sunset a cannon went off. The two boats in the lead-the Lanai, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, and the Saleema, owned by H. B. Plant-were picked to compete in the six-metre races to be held in European waters this summer...
Where wealth is spent with decorous gorgeousness, there the Edward F. Huttons are-in Manhattan on Long Island, in the Adirondacks, at Palm Beach. The Palm Beach estate is so magnificent that the Huttons use wiles to keep intruders out. A sentry guards the gate. Once a brazen rich woman whom Mrs. Hutton refused to receive applied for a maid's job in the mansion. As inept as indelicate, she was quickly discovered. A private tunnel runs from the Hutton grounds to the famed Bath and Tennis Club of Palm Beach. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hutton like to entertain...