Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many rich men get into the habit of collecting things. Thus far, however most of the things which Henry Ford has picked up have a way of paying fat dividends. Thus, considerable curiosity has been occasioned recently by the Detroit manufacturer's acquisition of some 12,000 acres of land along the Ogeechee River near Savannah. On the land stands Strathy Hall, a fine old rice plantation. Mr. Ford showed his fondness for old traditional buildings when he bought the Sudbury...
...Mellon and Couzens are both very rich men. They are the richest two men in active political life. Each is the case of a man able to command any form of leisure or diversion known to wealth, but foregoing all that and actually working harder at the public business than the most driven laborer...
...preached, so long as the hearers were none the wiser. When his reputation chased him from one pulpit to another, he found reasons for taking up counterfeiting: men had to have currency and he a living. Why, he would do mankind a service and after he had got rich, succor the poor! But his first bad dollars bought him a cell; and for several years he had to concentrate on breaking jail...
...Sure 'tis a foine drama we be afther seein." Such is the effect of Ralph Cullinan's comedy, "Loggerheads," playing at the Hollis Street Theatre. However little Irish blood you have in your veins you will talk with a rich brogue for several hours after listening to this Hibernian play...
Though Chilhowee, famed Kentucky racehorse, holder of the world's record for 1⅛mi., was the favorite in the rich Coffroth Handicap at Tia Juana, Mexico, last week, though an able jockey straddled his back, he ran tenth. In his quarters, after the race, Chilhowee crumpled in a miserable heap to the stable floor, rolling pathetic eyes upon trainer, owners, veterinary. His temperature, which he meekly permitted them to take, was 104°. "Poisoned," said the veterinary. "Poisoned," hissed the trainer. "Poisoned," wailed Owners Ernest and Henry Hart...