Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale lasted for four days. The first three were spent in auctioning off the smaller, the less valuable pieces. A rich woman purchased a pair of Irish silver sauce-boats for $2,500; other collectors bought in card-tables, marble clocks, lamps, figurines, inkstands, door knockers, small sofas and chairs, portraits of French ladies whose furtive, lovely faces looked down with gay bewilderment at the solemn faces of antique dealers and U. S. ladies of fashion. On the fourth day of the sale the finest pieces were brought on the platform; the buyers, in their excitement, kept crossing their knees...
...England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling's India...
Mighty Chicago millionaires have a new breakfast luxury. For $200 a year they may buy the Chicago Daily Tribune on fine, white, imperishable rag paper. Even the most ostentatiously rich, however, are expected to avail themselves sparingly of this luxury. The rag paper edition will go principally to libraries and record rooms where permanent files are a crying need...
...great Johann Sebastian Bach were played, with an amazing virtuosity and an infinite variety of tonal color. Some moments the music was bright, crackling like a harp's chord, then full, glowing like an E 'cello. Always it was more than a guitar, the mouthpiece of a rich imagination, intelligently directed...
Spiritual suicide is a cruel delicacy for the current theatre. With amazing daring, Mr. Kelly has written of two people in whom daring had died. The thoughtful, courageous quality of his attempt is scarcely obscured by deficiencies in his result. Passages of perilously rich writing intrude; clarity of concept is not constant. Yet the play, provocative, never bores...