Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is Briarhopper, pure and unadulterated. This peculiar dialect is a mixture of the Southern and strangely enough the Cockney of England. The Cockney is very evident when the speech is heard and the inflection can noted. Many Kentuckians have moved over to Ohio to work its rich farmlands and to find employment in its many factories. The Ohio farmers have fallen into its lazy easy way of speaking and strangers, hearing the farmers probably deduce that they are hearing pure Chillicothe...
...American Museum, is also out to raise millions. But this is a new idea. Until last March when he conducted an astonishingly successful Symposium on Early Man, Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader, 51, the museum's unpaid managing director thought of raising merely $374,915 from other rich Philadelphians "for a five-year educational program." Up went Mr. Cadwalader's imagination and requests to $10,000,000 for endowment and $8,000,000 for a new building. And the trustees of this oldest (125 years) museum of natural history in the U. S. upped him to the unpaid...
With such pleasantries Philadelphia's famed book collector and rich electrical equipment manufacturer, Alfred Edward Newton, 73, filled a thin little book called Newton on Blackstone which last week reached reviewers from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Purpose of the book: to perpetuate for his friends the remarks made by witty Mr. Newton when the University of Pennsylvania made him an honorary Doctor of Laws...
...under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark has long given more than a tithe of his in come to the church. His parting suggestion to North Baptism, which delegates approved, was to enter upon "an adventure in tithing," each...
Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) has given almost 100 impersonations of Marouf, the cobbler who runs away from his nagging wife, pretends to be a rich merchant, makes a monkey of the Sultan of Khaitan and marries the Sultan's daughter. Chamlee first took the part nine years ago at Ravinia Park (Chicago), later in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lille and Brussels. When he arrived to sing his first Marouf in Paris, Composer Rabaud kept him up till 3 a.m. going over the score, called him a "delicious interpreter...