Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones. In Houston lives a ponderous, genial, whitehaired personage, know to Houstonians as a timber magnate who moved down from Dallas 20 years ago to open banks & bond houses, build hotels, publish the Houston Chronicle, etc., etc. He looks, acts and is one of the richest men in all rich Texas?Jesse Holman Jones. In Who's Who, Mr. Jones calls himself, "builder, financier." Among nationally experienced Democrats, he has come to be known as a politician, almost as well known as that other Texan, Col. Edward Mandell House of the Wilson regime...
...hoped that the frankness with which they state their desires, and the willingness of the United States to admit the rights of free states even while she protects her citizens in them, will remove the stigma of guilty selfishness from this country in her future dealings with a rich and disorganized continent...
...before, so it was last week, only perhaps more so. Again, the most memorable remarks of the week came neither from apostle nor statesman but from a Detroit manufacturer. Henry Ford first remarked that he did not know how rich he was, that he did not care a damn. "I don't give a damn," he shouted to the eager U. S. as represented by honest newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this...
...Davis became a rich man-although not so rich as Mr. Seiberling. He sold his interests in U. S. Rubber, and with his money prospected for oil in Texas. He lest all except faith in Texas oil. He called on his friend for a loan, and promptly got $57,000. Then he struck oil, made...
...Circus. A little ridiculous tramp, very hungry and without funds, was standing beside a pickpocket. The pickpocket grabbed from a rich man a watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket the little tramp at last became aware of the fat purse that he was carrying. Pleased, he walked over to a hot-dog stand and bought himself a sausage; then he looked at his new watch. The proper owner of watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property...