Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither he nor his rich backers (primarily Procter, Ivory Soap man) could sell him to the politicians. It was deep disappointment. Theodore was dead. Was Leonard...
...London, Sir John Lavery, famed portraitist, reported a successful visit to the U.S. where with businesslike speed and punctuality he had done 15 millionaires. He also reported that prohibition was practically unknown among the rich. Only four abstainers had he met. One was Vance C. Mc-Cormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...will not work and who tries to make an Art out of clothes, cuisine and calling cards. He goes broke and is terribly insulted by sheriffs and by well meaning friends who try to lend him money. In the background hovers, inevitably, a girl, to say nothing of a rich uncle from South America. Lionel Atwill does his very best to make a silk purse out of a stuffed shirt...
...Heaven's Sake. Harold Lloyd's films are simply matters of comparison. All of them are funny and some of them are funnier than others. This one tells the adventures of a rich young man who. in trying to shed a few millions, found himself promoting a mission for down-and-outers. Mr. Lloyd has done better pictures; there are only three or four comedians that could possibly do as good a one as this...
...What rich American was named by Sir John Lavery as abstaining from liquor? (See POLITICAL NOTES...