Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brooding Nazi eagle, on their right the flamboyant Soviet pavilion topped by excited proletarian figures, and before them a great basin of foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt is a heavy splash of deep red; Rumania scintillates with a faqade of rare stone from her rich mines; Austria is a building the whole front of which is a glass serving to frame a gigantic photograph at the rear, so that one seems to look not at a structure but at Alpine heights; and Norway is all beer, fur and skis. Beyond lies Italy, a pavilion where...
...claim to this land was recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns an extremely rich deposit of radium-bearing ore-one of the richest, in proportion of radium to the ton, ever discovered...
What President Hotchkiss had read was the routine account of a transfer tax appraisal of the estate of Mrs. William B. Cogswell, widow of a rich Rensselaer alumnus who pioneered the Belgian Solvay chemical processes (soda products, coke) in the U. S., helped form giant Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. in 1920. Mr. Cogswell died in 1921, his wife last year in Manhattan. To her sisters, the middle-aged Misses Elizabeth and Florence Browning of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the appraisal revealed that Mrs. Cogswell left a net estate of $4,266,548, plus two trust funds, each consisting...
...promptly closed all the city's gambling houses. Of these the toughest, most renowned was the old Arcade at 16th and Larimer streets. The Arcade's owner, a Serb named Vaso L. Chucovich, contributed heavily to the mayor's campaign, remained his warm friend, grew rich in Denver real estate and on his death in 1933 left $100,000 for a Robert W. Speer memorial. Denver's wrangles over the execution of this bequest have been periodic art news ever since...
...socialite named Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), whose bankroll is more impressive than his sophistication. To Carol's father's crony, Bookmaker Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) this is good news indeed. He takes it for granted that Carol's only possible object in becoming affianced to a rich nincompoop is to provide financial succor for her father and his friends. Actually Duke, who falls in love with Carol, is quite right but Carol's reasoning has been subconscious rather than calculating. Convincing her where her true interest lies is a lengthy process which entails horse races...