Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returned a verdict of not guilty. Lawyer Darrow had again gilded his unique reputation by securing an acquittal against heavy odds, emphasizing by repetition his statement that "courts are cockpits in which lawyers may fight." There is a peculiar consistency in his defense of the hopelessly lost, of the rich and poor alike, of the underdog who is under because of inexorable gyrations of fate, which indicates that his motives are of noble origin. Or perhaps the grey and stooped veteran laughs behind his ugly face when he sees the jury succumbing to his harangue...
Money Talks (Owen Moore-Claire Windsor). It is an axiom of the movies that any man who starts the picture poor and shows enough initiative must end the picture rich. The process herein is advertising; the advertised product, a sanitarium. The young man sells "bracing air at $2 a sniff," and most of the comedy occurs on a voyage of the first shipload of patients to the haven. They are set upon by rum-runners, whom the young man defeats by dressing as a girl and touching the hard captain's heart. Claire Windsor, as the young...
Felix Warburg, Louis Marshall, William Fox and other rich Jews are on the committee which, with headquarters in Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, has sent its representatives and its publicity up and down the country - the most intense activity being in Greater New York. "There is one hope for the Jews in Eastern Europe," great posters state; "that hope is in the drive for fifteen million dollars. . . ." Speakers have outlined the purposes, the causes of the campaign...
...consider this Harvard Fund plan a way in which the rich man and the man of moderate means can do his share and thus not only raise more money for the University, but also keep more Harvard men in touch with their Alma Mater." Franklin S. Billings, '85. Governor of Vermont...
...Kuinm Howard '28 of Edgewood Pa.; James Carey Thomas Flexner '29 of New York City: stage, Marvin Fiske Burt '28, of Freeport, Ill.; George Wing Dryer '27 of Birmingham, Ala.; electrical, Murry Nelson Fairbank '28 of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; George Sutro Lowenstein '28 of Brookline; Francis Neilson Rich '29 of West Orange, N. J.; publicity, John Goldsmith Phillips '29 of Muskogee, Okla.; Richard Thomas Sherman '28 of Algona, la.; acting, Clarence Wesley Dupertuis '29 of Somerville; Fredric Hill Rahr '29 of Brookline; costume, George Wales Brewster '29 of Boston; Philip Ives Dunne '29, of New York City...