Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world of learning or who had performed some especially laudable deed in the service of humanity. As learning became more commercialized during the nineteenth century and competition between the universities keener, the requirements for an honorary degree became ever more lenient, until the present spectacle of politicians, rich suckers, and back writers receiving honors from the colleges should disgust any one with the slightest pride in higher education...
...strange habit of reciprocity among American colleges. In the field of government Samuel Seabury rendered a great public service, but degrees were similarly bestowed upon A1 smith, Orden Mills, and Secretary Wallance. Even the casual reader of the Bible will admit that it much easier for a rich man to enter the Sever Quadrangle than the gates of heaven, and it is hard to see how being President of "Filene's" or Vice-President of the "American Telephone and Telegraph" makes one automatically eligible for an academic degree at Harvard. Many men of science and literature have been honored...
...drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, still publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more serious verse. Death and General Putnam-and 101 Other Poems (1935), his literary high, was boosted by many readers for a Pulitzer Prize. He is an expert on New York history, rich enough to winter in Florida, summer in Vermont...
Surveying "The Occupational Outlook for Youth," Speaker Pitkin observed: "You must become as versatile and quick-witted as possible." Irrepressible as usual was rich old Edward Filene, the Boston merchant whose hobby for 20 years has been talking liberalism. Stormed he: "Those who made money in the last generation might drink champagne when children all over America were crying for milk which they couldn't get. That game is about over now. ... I hail the arrival of a day when power has passed into the hands of the people and we businessmen must obey...
...When rich & pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady announced her engagement last February to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free State envoy to the Vatican, it also became known that she was planning to turn over her huge Manhasset estate, "Inisfada." to the Society of Jesus, sell off its reputedly brilliant collection of art. Fortnight ago a posse of New York dealers and collectors' agents trekked through the fragrance of a Long Island spring to "Inisfada," paid 50? a head (for charity) to enter the rambling, 87-room Tudoresque structure, took long, thoughtful looks at its contents before the sale...