Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general psychology of our Chinese people today can be described in one word: listlessness. Our officials tend to be dishonest and avaricious; the masses are undisciplined and callous; adults are ignorant and corrupt; youth becomes degraded and intemperate; the rich become extravagant and luxurious, the poor become mean and disorderly...
...Charles William Eliot of Harvard said to a friend: "I don't think they necessarily need a great preacher, or a very able man. ... I think they might take somebody like you, Lawrence." Shortly thereafter the Episcopalians did take Dr. William Lawrence to be their seventh bishop. This rich, cultivated, liberal-minded churchman, then 43, had six children of whom the only boy was W. (for William) Appleton Lawrence...
...Francis Wayland Ayer simply named the firm in honor of his father when he founded it in 1869. There are no Ayers at all in the firm today. Through the years the partnership of N. W. Ayer & Son stuck to its motto, "Keeping Everlastingly At It Brings Success," waxed rich on many & many a small account, some big ones like those of Ford Motor Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph. By 1928 the firm had grown so large that it built its own 13-story building on Philadelphia's West Washington Square, placing in the cornerstone the founder...
...love with the arch-radical of the campus. Nothing is too red for her then, until she is kidnapped by one who embodies all radicalism within himself; rescued from his predicament by a trio of splendidly-played burlesque G-men, and returned to the arms of her incredibly rich father, through with bolshevism...
...still have room for Karl Marx; the scene in which he philosophizes to Belinda is worth the rest of the film. The picture on the whole, is not up to the standard of the famous team. However, besides being a telling commentary on a foolish fad, "Soak the Rich" is more than average entertainment...