Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year they were sent to the flood victims, but the arrival of uncollegiate clothing in New Hampshire was was looked upon as an impertinence in some of the better refugee circles. And however prejudiced the poor may be, Phillips Brooks House can still do the Christian thing by the rich. Lowella may go her old way, and sin no more...
...Hour. A girl called Cuddles (Sally O'Neil), some rich and roistering men, flasks full of cockeyed consomme, petting nights and sad-eyed days -one just knows that Elinor Glyn wrote the original story. But old irony played its ace and The Mad Hour turned out to be tragedy. Cuddles married a rich man, got mixed up with a crook, was sent to jail, lost her child, committed suicide...
Love Hungry. To be poor is no fun. Joan (Lois Moran) and Mamie (Marjorie Beebe) know that. Living in a cheap boarding house, with their efforts as chorus girls unsuccessful, they are glad when rich Lonnie Van Hook invites them out to dinner in a gaudy restaurant. But, alackaday, they must leave their only wristwatch to pay the check, because Mr. Van Hook is suddenly called away. Later, he brings an engagement ring to Joan; she shows it to her true lover (a poor author), who throws it out the window and marries her. Mamie, however, picks up the ring...
When you are young you steer away from doctors; they mean sickness, suggest unpleasantness, death, even. But old people like doctors. Many rich old men make their doctors their best friends. When last week in Manhattan a bust of Dr. George David Stewart, president of the American College of Surgeons, was unveiled in his presence in the Carnegie Lecture room of the Bellevue Medical College, many old and wealthy men stood by with bare heads. One of them even tried to make a speech. The people gasped when they saw him come forward. It was George F. Baker...
...tradition of his Kurhaus. Later he bought more hotels and titled people stayed in them. César knew them all by name. When he opened the Carlton in London, he gave an elaborate banquet. The guests were all titled, with the exception of a few very rich Americans; one of these was a banker to whom M. Ritz extended, gratis, all the facilities of his new hotel before its formal opening because the banker had been recommended to him by an old friend...