Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There in a squalid hovel of mats she teaches her children to beg, goes out alone in the midst of rioting to help loot a rich merchant's house. Though trampled and nearly shot, she gets away with a pouch of jewels. She gives them to Wang, keeping only two pearls-"not to wear-I am too plain-but to look at when I am alone...
...playing brother, Ely Culbertson, is bold. Though both Culbertsons were born in Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American Revolution. Their father was a mining engineer from Oil City, Pa. who liked to boast of his Scotch Covenanter descent. In 1880 he went to Russia to develop the rich oil fields at Grozny. There he met and married Xenia Rogoznaia, daughter of a Cossack general...
...orchestra he made great. Without him, the Philharmonic-Symphony has managed to maintain its U. S. supremacy under the vigorous baton of young John Barbirolli and assorted guest conductors like Georges Enesco and Igor Stravinsky. With Toscanini back, in command of the first-desk orchestral talent which rich NBC already has and can add to, there will be in the land another competitor for symphonic supremacy, with the continent instead of Carnegie Hall for its auditorium...
Father Culbertson struck it rich. He was able to move into a big feudal castle near Grozny. Ely was born in, 1893, Alexander five years later. At 4, Sasha began to study violin. Ely used to practice too, but gave up when people made fun of him for keeping his mouth open. While Sasha was studying arduously at home, Ely Culbertson, then 14, ran away, hobnobbed with anarchists, spent two wretched months in the Tsar's prison...
...late great Col. Washington A. Roebling, built a factory in Trenton to make their own steel cables for that miraculous structure. Col. Roebling finished it. In 1933 Mary Gindhart, a customer's consultant in the Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. in Trenton. Siegfried Roebling died a year ago, leaving his wife among other things a large stock interest in Trenton Trust Co. No stranger to authority, Madam President Roebling is the only woman representative on New Jersey...