Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...richer blessing can fill your own hearts than the consciousness on some bleak winter's evening that your generosity has lighted a fire upon some family's hearth that otherwise would be black and cold and has spread some family table with food where otherwise children would be wanting. I wish my last word to you to be the word GIVE...
...polo and pianists by pretending that he is ruined. They stay home with him and have a lovely time. The deception works overtime and earns George Arliss another million dollars behind his back. Pressure ennobles everybody; the story shows them all good enough to be poor though in fact richer than ever. George Arliss, looking like a wise, kind turtle, is quiet and expert as the kind of millionaire everybody would like to be. Typical shot: loyal Butler Mitchell matter-of-factly giving Arliss his life savings to carry him through the crisis, making audiences sniffle...
...Italy three years ago came flashing dark-eyed Mrs. John Work Garrett, wife of the U. S. Ambassador. Younger and richer than Princess Jane, she eclipsed her with even bigger parties and never charged admission, even for charity...
...organization to the Presidential candidacy of Democrat John Nance Garner, he had little of interest to say about the Convention, but he, too, considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have to answer, 'From [cinemagnate] Louis Mayer, I suppose, but I really don't know. These are terrible times...
...Cortez) is an impudent, conceited hack, perpetually touching pitch. "I am a mirror reflecting the spirit of the times," he says, and later: "I am the guy who made Broadway famous." He has a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) but he is careless of her feelings and takes up with a richer one (Jill Esmond). Presently he writes for his colyum a description of a murder before the police have found the corpse. This causes an indignant Sicilian to crawl into his office and shoot him in the ribs. When he revives in a hospital, the colyumist is unchastened but embarrassed...