Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through ten scenes compounded about equally of history and Hollywood, Playwright O'Brien chronicles all Ana's ecstasies and woes. Rich in period costumes, and richer in theatrical cliches,' That Lady accelerates now & then from the speed of a glacier to that of glue. It is enacted, moreover, in whaleboned prose: characters address one another as "dear friend." and favor such pronunciations as "princess...
Kewpies & Creditors. Frank Costello, businessman extraordinary, was born after that. The tale of his ventures and triumphs emerged only in jerky scenes, badly lighted and often confused. But each time he appeared, momentarily in the light, Frank Costello looked bigger, sharper, more assured-and richer...
...Russians, although not usually inclined to be sympathetic with the frailties of man or hippopotamus, have come to share this insight of Poet T. S. Eliot. As a result, the world last week was the richer by one of the rare instances of East-West cooperation in years, and may soon be richer by one baby hippopotamus...
...when he was 40, Henry M. Blackmer had developed the habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
...precisely the desire for a bigger & richer life, for more and better things (constantly stimulated by advertising), that created the demand for-and sold-the goods which made American men & women better housed, better clothed, better groomed and better-looking than any on earth. American business civilization-leaving aside the poets and the painters-has not put its cult of beauty and its belief in progress into formal philosophies. Yet in a sense, it is writing a statement to posterity into the glossy pages and towering lights of its advertising...