Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant the opera debut of Marion Talley, so sensationalized by the Press that headline readers were led to believe that this Kansas City telegrapher's daughter must be the world's greatest singer. Three years later when the bubble was thoroughly pricked and Marion Talley was richer by half a million dollars, she suddenly announced that she was through with singing. This time she was attempting a come back with the newborn Chicago Grand Opera (TIME, Jan. 1). And if there were no mounted police to drive off the crowds who could not get in to hear...
...take thee ... for my lawful wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part...
...unequal division of slaves and the fact that some of the victors received none, forced free men into competition with slave labor, resulted in their eventual bankruptcy, led to their being hired by richer men, and so led finally to the division into capitalistic and wage-earning classes. A few of the poor free men being more ingenious than the rest, turned then talents to the manufacture of goods offered first for barter and later for sale. Here we have the beginning of the artisan class. At a later date the merchant class sprang up to facilitate the process...
...Scotch, would also certainly help to overcome the reluctance of the dons. If only all of them would consider the few of their number who do dine with college men, and the many happy times so spent, perhaps all of them would find the way to that broader and richer life which every tutor longs for. That would be a happy day indeed for the resident staff of the House, for they would at last be actually giving something in return for their free room and board, the undeserved enjoyment of which has long troubled their tender consciences...
...Poor has advanced since the time several years ago when he gave up painting, as he thought for good, to retire to the country, build his own home, and mold, fire and glaze tiles, vases and urns that won him the reputation of the country's greatest potter. Richer Poor canvases were on view in a one-man show in Manhattan's Rehn Galleries last week where landscapes, still lifes, and in particular a figure study entitled "The Pink Tablecloth" won high hosannas...