Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Privately run jails for young ladies of rich families make special dispensations for escape from 2 until 5.30 so that young chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...
...wily pornography has apparently made him so rich* that last week his publication corporation was able to buy an eight-story building, yet under construction in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, to house his activities. The building is worth $1,500,000, and stands on ground leased for 84 years at $30,000 yearly rental, or $2,520,000 for the entire period. Bernarr Macfadden cannot buy the land in fee simple, for it is owned by Trinity Corporation, which represents Trinity Church...
...firm of Cooley, Farwell & Co., which was doing a big wholesale business with the towns of the prairies. This was in 1856. Marshall Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil War. He backed up every item of goods he sold with a warranty of its soundness and value and he sold only for "cash." "Cash" meant the exact day, 30 to 60 days...
...potent government official, Brillat-Savarin was yet first and foremost the Boswell to his own Johnson. While his social and convivial self toasted with discreet enjoyment the good things of the world, his meditative, whimsical alter ego was at work upon the essays here collected. Since Brillat- Savarin was rich, he had no need to print during his lifetime. He wrote at leisure, as a gourmand should, and deigned to publish in his old age a book constantly rewritten, mellowed and refined throughout his lifetime...
...traces with mock profundity the awful and mysterious path of solids and liquids through the system. As a running fire to this weighty discourse anecdotes of the great at table pop like champagne corks, snap like crunched marrow bones. There is rare eating and rich reading here...