Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor babies of Manhattan and environs are richer by $130,000, that being their share of the sums paid by 40,000 fight patrons to see last week's Milk Fund bout between Heavyweights Max Schmeling and Paulino Uzcudun in the Yankee Stadium. Herr Schmeling and Senor Uzcudun are richer by $72,500 each, or 40% of the total proceeds. Herr Schmeling is richer by the title, "Champion of Europe," which awkward Senor Uzcudun previously held in a vague way. Fight patrons are richer only by the semi-satisfaction of a hope, the half-answer of a question...
...McAdoo plane cost $18,500. Mr. McAdoo can well afford it. He has long been rich. His law fees continually make him richer. For a merger which he is now bringing about he will get one more million dollars. After the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and a decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office...
...with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South Sea wonders, more winning records have been made of childhood and adolescence; but Cradle of the Deep combines both...
...Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small independent company, has overcome difficulties of sound-production which richer producers are still combating with less success...
...what happens in any present chance undergraduate gathering: sports, sex, the latest political scandal, examination grievances and the like will be the topics of conversation and any mention of history, painting, or chemistry will be banned as shop talk. As concerns education Harvard will not be the least bit richer than it is today...