Word: rich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer night in 1906, rich, pleasure-loving young Harry Kendall Thaw pumped three bullets into Architect Stanford White, who had seduced Evelyn Nesbit Thaw before her marriage. That killing was the most sensational crime passionnel of the young 20th-century...
...Scott Fitzgerald has gone to Hollywood. In this script, with Edward E. Paramore, he tried to adapt Erich Maria Remarque's novel into a corrosive arraignment of Nazi Germany. They wrote a scene in which a poor Jew proclaimed his love for Germany, another in which a rich Jew refrained from cheating three young gentiles, a scene in which famed books, including Remarque's, were burned by Nazis. Hays office censorship left none of these scenes in the finished picture. Much political content is removed by a camera shot of a blowing newspaper dated October 1920, still more...
...artist thus admired in his own profession does not often grow rich, but commissions ranging up to $15,000 have given Augustus John an old stone manor and a bright pink studio in Hampshire, another studio in Wales. John offspring include Son Teddy, a successful professional boxer, Daughter Poppet, who married well, and Son Casper, a member of the Air Ministry Mission recently...
Prevented from defending his magazine before the committee. Editor Frank was told to "sit down" while Senator Minton called his magazine "sugarcoated propaganda." Rural Progress' readers, the Senator later declared over the radio, would never have accepted the magazine had they known that "these rich people, opposed to the President, were putting up the bank roll...
...Association of Zanzibar objected. Before long half of its members were out of work. Finally, after four years of railing against the English association, its bearded President Tayyib Ali took the problem to Mahatma Gandhi. Last September, India's National Congress appointed the Mahatma's first lieutenant, rich Vallabhbhai Patel as chairman of a committee to look into a boycott of Zanzibar cloves...