Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princess Xenia of Russia, second cousin once removed of the late Tsar Nicholas II, is better known in Manhattan as rich Mrs. William B. Leeds. Three months ago she brought to the U. S. as her guest a famed & mysterious young woman, "Mme. Tchaikovsky" (TIME, Feb. 20), who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas the Last...
...spent at various European spas. Then smart Parisians were made merry by the apparition of a Venizelos once more sprightly and impeccably dandified. He sipped champagne with a zest smacked of youth. He popped in and out of limousines with ladies. He spent some of the money of his rich new Greek wife. And then, came sudden reaction. The Great Man retired to Crete, the island of his birth. He would, he said, translate and edit the works of Historian Thucydides (died circa 400 B. C.). He would be deeply, profoundly absorbed for a long time, perhaps until Death came...
...much as $250,000,000 worth of works of art have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...
...years ago Mr. Kennedy, in his mid 30's, took a better business position. With the aid of rich friends he bought from British investors control of FBO (Film...
...sculptury and Judith Anderson is his pretty model who poses for him in the nude, who wagers that if he can marry a certain heiress she will give him her all, and who turns out, on the date of payment, to be herself none other than the rich and reckless lady...