Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suave General Wu Te-chen who became a national hero in the Japanese invasion of 1032 Last March Generalissimo Chiang decided that Mayor Wu might be getting to be too much of a hero, kicked him upstairs to the difficult post of Governor ot Kwangtung and gave this rich job to O. K. Yui, a toothy highly-Americanized graduate of St. John's University, Shanghai who had been Secretary General and busiest executive of Shanghai since...
...little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time. Thereupon Wendy leaves the bridegroom waiting at the church, goes to work for Curson as a model...
...misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin's tale, instead told one about a rich New Yorker named Shattuck who pursued a thieving butler across the ocean, caught him in France and had him sent to Devil's Island...
...horse whose form is far less impressive. Through the sparkling spectacles of stern young John Hay ("Jock") Whitney-who, as a New York State racing commissioner, Jockey Club member, president of the American Thoroughbred Breeders Association and scion of a great U. S. turf family, typifies Saratoga's rich and formidable August colony-this seems a piece of gross misdoing. In the breakfast room of the gargantuan old Grand Union Hotel* last week he rose to address the convened National Association of State Racing Commissioners on this subject...
...others. Plunging on alone into the Kuenlun Mountains of Tibet, he was trapped in a snowstorm, endured 30 days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he lay dying in the snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died of cholera the day after he got her. When the plague caught up to him he met his death crying...