Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group in which he found himself, fought during the War without a thought of the justice or meaning of the conflict, ended happily and prosperously by conventional standards, Oliver was frustrated, tormented, doomed. Yet the philosopher seems to say that of the two, Oliver's life was the richer and more admirable. Oliver might never win the love of Rose, but he would never misunderstand her so grossly as Mario...
...hotbed of discussion as to which of the two new Carmens had done the better job. Wettergren, like Ponselle, indulged in occasional exaggerated horseplay, tweaked various noses, poked choristers in the ribs. But she was never so flagrantly vulgar as the Connecticut Carmen. Ponselle's voice is much richer, but the Swedish soprano used hers with more taste and intelligence, gave the part more variety...
...earmarking the U. S. winter of 1936 with this insane melody were named Eddy Farley, fleshy master-of-ceremonies, and Mike Riley, emaciated trombone player, at a small dive called the Onyx Club in Manhattan's iniquitous West 52nd Street. Last week they claimed to be $1,000 richer than they were a month ago when the song was first published, with royalties just beginning to come in. They expected to make a trip to Hollywood to do a series of cinema shorts. Meanwhile their names were last week making lights on Broadway, while they plugged The Music Goes...
...Socialism to achieve this goal and make our society richer the country must have a level of labor productivity that exceeds that of the foremost Capitalist countries. The Stakhanov movement is such a movement. It opens up new prospects for the practical strengthening of Socialism in our country and for turning it into the (world's) most affluent land.'' Communism at Last? The main smash of Stalin's remarks on Stakhanovism was intelligible only if one realizes that the Soviet Union has never been Communist, is not now Communist, but hopes some day to become Communist...
None of the founders of modern art has been richer game for the journalist than Vincent van Gogh. Within the past two years two lives of him have been best sellers, one a novel, Lust for Life by Irving Stone,* another a scholarly biography by able Art Critic Julius Meier-Graefe (TIME...