Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although now a rich exhibitor, he had nothing to do with making pictures to be exhibited, an industry which had developed from Edison's kinetoscope to a small, tight trust consisting of ten producing companies. Zukor, looking for new attractions for his houses, had been thinking of production when he wrote the slogan that afterward became the name of his company?the Famous Players. Gambling all his money on his belief that there would be profits in advertising cinema actors like "legit" actors, he fought to break the trust. While his wife sold her jewels and friends loaned their savings...
...Paul Morton, variously President of the Burlington Railroad, Secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt. President of the Equitable. Mr. Potter still fondly calls himself a mining engineer, rather than a banker. He was long associated with the Guggenheims. For a period he even gave up his office with the rich bank to become a member of the (perhaps) richer Guggenheim Bros. firm. The Guaranty's resources then were just about a half-billion. But the War was on in Europe. Morton died; Hemphill had become chairman, Mr. Sabin president. Under President Sabin the Guaranty sold vast bond issues...
Within five years, the Herald had a circulation of 50,000, more than double that of its nearest competitor, and Bennett was getting rich...
...Almost as soon as he was able to articulate, young Bennett knew that he would always be rich and that he would some day run the Herald. Tutors, France, champagne and the freedom of the Herald office furnished his education. New York's fastest society embraced him, because, unlike his father, he was a sporting blood. Delmonico's for luncheon, the Union Club* for late afternoon, anywhere for the evening?went young Bennett...
...TOWER-William Butler Yeats- Macmillan ($2.25). Of contemporary poets many are bold, curious, fascinating; few are enduring. One of the few is Yeats, who in his triumphant youth brandished the wild beauty of Ireland with rich imagery of folklore, and in his reluctant 60's writes _a slim volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river...