Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain's two children, a boy of nine and a girl of eight, are his by a previous marriage. She?"Captain" Barker? was originally Miss Lilias Irma Valerie Barker, daughter of a rich, landed proprietor on the Isle of Jersey, Thomas William Barker, who died some 15 years ago. Miss Barker was in service at Mons and elsewhere in the War area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced...
...general manager. Mr. Buick left the company he had founded. In the later growth of the Buick Motor Car Co. and in the development of General Motors, he took no part. He left the company with a block of stock which would soon have made him an exceedingly rich man. But David Buick seemed to have no affinity for money. He could not make it himself and he was not content to let abler business men make...
...really rich and potent tycoon likes the idea of sitting on a "sub-committee," and so last week the three sub-committees of the second Dawes Committee-now sitting in Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.)-were rechristened "Informal Groups...
...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...
...esthete named Winfield Gaines (but called "Phoebe") was her friend until he was expelled. She studied singing with a local teacher who had a book called Lyra Operatica, full of stilted engravings of old singers in the pinched and flowing costumes of classic roles. She herself had a big rich voice. It was for church-singing, perhaps someday teaching. Certainly not for the sinful ways of opera. But when her father and mother died, Helma went to New York...