Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are many Americans richer than I. Believe me! Believe me! And need I tell you that I have brought neither automobiles, which would have been a real aberration, your automobiles being of public notoriety, holding first place in the world's production, nor airplanes, yours, as well as your aviators, showing incessant proof of their exceptional value...
...here in America, as many Americans richer and undoubtedly more prominent than I am, go to Europe, notably to see your electric industries and rayon [synthetic silk] industries, in which you know that I am interested. It is as a traveler wishing to see and to learn that I am here, with very good friends who are also here to see and to learn...
...face. But the éclat which attached itself to his restaurant requires a more complete explanation. César Ritz read faces as well as remembering them; he was an instinctive & selective snob, one of those likeable snobs whose hauteur is inherent; he did not consciously single out his richer patrons for special attention. Nonetheless it was the epicures who remembered him, and the princes and the millionaires. Other people were a little frightened by M. Ritz, even intimidated by his martial cognomen or his last name that sounded sharp and hard...
...other woman was Lady Mary Bailey. She, too, was an aviatrix and the not quite so young wife (38) of a richer but not quite so old baronet, Sir Abe Bailey, 63. The gold of Sir Abe came from diamond mines and from other oldtime South African transactions which gained for him the dubious title of "one of Cecil Rhodes' young men." Lady Mary had given him five children and he had supplied a town house in London, a country place in Suffolk, a 200,000-acre ranch in Rhodesia, and plenty of airplanes...
...waste their own and their tutor's time, prepare for their General Examinations at a tutoring school, neglect their Reading Period assignments and turn their backs on every attempt on the part of authorities to make intellectual pastures a delectable paradise for students. "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" seems to apply here. Educators might hesitate to recognize the obvious need for separation, but soon they may have to focus their attention upon this situation. As long as steps like the Reading Period are taken, so long will the breach widen. The autimonies are clearly outlined...