Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondents President Fletcher said bitterly: "The Marines have been driving Sandino's forces directly into the rich mining districts, instead of coming from the mining districts themselves and barring Sandino from entering such valuable territory. . . . My brothers and I are not in politics down there, and we have nothing to do with Wall Street. . . . From the meagre information I have the losses from looting our movable property may run to $100,000; but if the pipe line and mill plant have been destroyed the loss might run to $3,000,000 . . . and the owners would face ruin. ... I guess...
...graduated, he rushed off to China in 1900 as war correspondent. Two years later, he was married and became a reporter on the Tribune. As he rose from one desk to another, he wrote four trivial novels, the most successful of which was A Little Brother of the Rich, and one good play, The Fourth Estate. He said he was writing to please himself. When the War started, he went to Germany, Belgium, France for the Tribune. On the entrance of the U. S., he enlisted in the artillery as a private, emerged a captain...
...Post is a pretty successful publishing enterprise. It makes a few pennies and has a few readers. . . . We are not addressing ourselves to thoughtful gentlemen who sit in club windows on Fifth Avenue and read editorials in the [New York] Times. We are not appealing to the smart, fashionable rich or to the intellectuals and intelligentsia...
...very rich men are among the 1,100 Stock Exchange members. But they are not active traders. The work is too mechanical for them to dissipate their wits on. They consider floor brokers as only high grade machines, who merely buy and sell securities upon orders. The real thinking is done at their offices, in smoky "customers' rooms," over the cocktails of big speculators. Some day machines activated by perforated and notched discs may do the trading on stock exchanges...
...parrots, and a sleepy possum that could not think what his name was. The judge, also dozing, is bound in red tape-red ribbons as Alice calls it. A very cross examination is interrupted by more news: PRIZE BEAUTY SLAYS LOVE MATE WITH ICE PICK AFTER JAZZ PARTY IN RICH NEST, and Alice's trial is over. Alice is advised to go into vaudeville, or write her Life Story, on the strength of her recent publicity, but she goes to W7ash-ington instead, and comes very near making hystery...