Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rotund and glossy Argentine Delegate Honorio Pueyrredon was first to potently outpop. His vastly rich and extensively land owning family enable him to flout whom he will with impunity. At the first session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, in Geneva, he arose and stalked out when Argentine interests seemed threatened. He stands high in the ranks of the strong, opposition, "Radical" party of Argentina. He has maintained himself as Ambassador at Washington by sheer prestige and almost in despite of Argentine President Marcelo de Alvear...
From such high opinion it is difficult to differ. Last week the young woman quietly rested on her claims and did not challenge a widespread assertion that her expenses in the U. S. will be defrayed by rich Mrs. William B. Leeds, the onetime Princess Xenia of Russia, now sojourning in the fashionable West Indies. Finally, observers recalled that Berlin police detectives long ago satisfied themselves that the young woman is Franziska Schanzkowski, a Polish peasant, born on the sixteenth of December 1896, at Borowielass in Pomerania...
...Vigilati, as does he with Agnes. Caught kissing, she is turned out of doors by the Thules, pere et mere. Then she goes to Vienna where she lives with a loose lady and suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts in a timely reappearance. He must go off to war immediately, but first he has time to stand on the station platform while a camera makes it clear that the world...
First, for Wall Street: Australia is a first class investment field, a rich, new, underpopulated continent with the stability and wisdom of the greatest world empire behind its expansion...
...flagpole and people will gape. Put a woman in a public boudoir: will not people gape and gape again? Believing that they will, M. Rich & Bros. Co. (department store) of Atlanta, Ga., engaged Edna Kirby, cinemactress, to live in one of their show windows for a week. She arrived in Atlanta one morning last week, was welcomed at the city hall by Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, then went about her window business-a daily routine of lounging, eating, lounging, dancing with callers, chatting, tidying, lounging. At 9 p. m. she prepared to retire. The curtains of the show window were...