Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owner. Barney Irish, an Irish tenant farmer, poor and almost unknown, is the lucky owner. By winning this race he is lifted to fame and made richer by some tens of thousands of dollars...
...World's Greatest Newspaper " (Chicago Tribune), will be unhappy until America is possessed of the British West Indies and is dispossessed of the Philippines. He wanted Secretary Mellon to insist that Great Britain cede the West Indies as part of the debt settlement. The Secretary, who is certainly richer and possibly as powerful as the publisher, did nothing of the kind. The publisher then proposed that the two island realms be " swapped...
...magnificent opportunity for tragi-comedy of the highest order is buried under an avalanche of rhetoric and pseudo-romance. Miss Mercedes de Acosta, the author, is both beautiful and young. Time may bring her a richer fruition of talents...
...HANDBOOK OF COOKERY FOR A SMALL HOUSE-Jessie Conrad (With a preface by Joseph Conrad)-Doubleday ($1.75). Joseph Conrad offers himself "modestly and gratefully as a Living Example" of his wife's art. Her style, lacking the richer beauties of his, has a toothsome directness. The following excerpt is characteristic: "The best plan is to soak the head in a bowl of cold water and a little salt all night, previously removing the brains." The quotation is from a fanciful essay entitled "Calf's Head...
...took, at the expense, perhaps, of some of the beauty of the second movement. Four years ago, when the symphony was last heard in Boston, the tempo of this second movement was slower, therein evidently different from the composer's conception (the movement is marked allegretto), but, it seemed, richer and finer. The beauty of that movement can afford to be lingered over. Playing it up to the time indicated, Mr. Monteux kept close to the composer and pleased his audience. To some however, something lacked...