Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Charles Francis Adams in 1913 characterized the democratizing of higher education in America as a materializing and commercializing influence, he recognized a development which in the intervening ten years has become even more clear. College education in America originally monopolized by the rich and the scholarly has become the heritage of an ever-increasing class...
...clock and will be conducted by Professor W. J. Cunningham and others to assist men who are to become traffic managers of industrial concerns or who intend to enter the traffic department of railroad service. Several lectures on the principles of rate-making will be given by E. J. Rich Commerce Counsel, Associated Industries of Massachusetts...
...People do not realize the gravity of the situation. Time may obliterate the horror of it, which can not be understood unless one came in close contact with the catastrophe. It brought rich and poor together on the same footing. They helped each other, and, though penniless, they knew the true value of life, having come face to face with death
...charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel's life, leaving him full of sorrow and anger that so inimitable a creature should come to such base uses. Later he heard she had married again-a rich, cranky old Englishman, who lived in South America -and in that marriage recovered for a few years before she died a little of the luxury and spaciousness that seemed to belong to her. And Niel was glad. For, as he came to middle age, he realized that though he had known...
...right there. Leave the room! " Without a word the man scrambled to his feet and hurried from the court. Justice Wagner refused to enlighten reporters as to his reasons. Whatever the outcome of the case, one thing is sure-it is being proved that a man, no matter how rich, no matter how influential, no matter how generously endowed with astute counsel, must bow to the yoke of the Law. Over the portals of the court house where the case is being tried, appears: "To no man will we sell, delay or deny justice...