Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become sufficiently rich (coal, mines, New Jersey Zinc Co.) to retire. He thought to devote all his time to ameliorating the living conditions of poor children. He likes them, pities them. But business oppor-tunities-railroads, steel works, Manhattan and Florida realty-knocked, assiduously, made him richer...
...working classes will suffer, but we are sure all classes will support the Government. Italy is primarily a nation of the middle classes, which must be taken care of first, even though the richer classes and the proletariat suffer...
Mlle. Marie Astrée-Luce de Morfontaine is younger and, owning more shares in the Suez Canal than the Rothschilds, even richer than Miss Grier. Tall and gaunt, she has a Giottesque religious intensity and the emotional experience of a child. Hers is the plan to hold an Ecumenical Council and promulgate the divine right of kings as a dogma of the Church...
Jockey Albert Johnson, up on Bubbling Over, sat in the winner's circle with a bunch of American Beauties in his arms. Owner Bradley,* the richer by $50,075 for the Winner's stake alone, let Mayor Walker of New York present him with a golden cup. Bubbling Over had won by five lengths; Bagenbaggage was second; Rockman third...
...genius; analyzed Spain; tried to nationalize health; philosophized on the War, in sad passivity. His latest prose work, The Dance of Life (1923), was a most remarkable symphonic synthesis of the component parts into which a careful analytical mind had reduced common existence for re-creation into a rounder, richer thing...