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Word: riches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposite shore. That was the house where they'd moved that girls' school a few years ago after its fire. It must be nice to be a schoolgirl, he thought, having nothing to worry about but keeping the rules and learning how to wear clothes and marrying some rich husband some day. More fun to be the rich husband, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

President Roosevelt's soak-the-rich program is purely for political advantage, according to Professor Harley L. Lutz writing in the lead article in the current "Harvard Business Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Article in Business Review Slams Roosevelt Spending | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

...sake of accuracy, I want to suggest that hereafter you put the "rich" in the past tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...days when Benito Mussolini was a rabid, stump-speaking young Socialist, he used to demand free lunches for Italian school children at the expense of the State. Last week by Fascist decree school lunches were made compulsory throughout Italy, but not at the expense of the State. Rich moppets will be charged enough to pay for their lunches and those of poor moppets as well. Rich or poor, every Italian school child will be required, before eating school lunch, to say this grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: For Richer, For Poorer | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...much good as possible to his fellow men and to accept no return therefor is the magnificent obsession of Dr. Manley Hudson. On rich, young handsome, and worthless Robert Merrick this philosophy of life makes little impression; but when he unwittingly becomes responsible for the death of the famous surgeon and the total blindness of his pretty young wife, Merrick decides for their sake to give the philosophy a trial...

Author: By W. R. F., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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