Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt hopped out of his car with Governor Lehman in tow, planted himself and the Governor in the centre of the chorus, perched Legion caps on both their heads, added his rich baritone to a rendition of There's A Long, Long Trail while photographers' flash bulbs winked...
Born in Hungary 52 years ago, Erne Hunt Diederich was the son of a rich and swank Hungarian horse breeder. His mother was the daughter of famed Bostonian Artist William Morris Hunt. A distant cousin of Diederich is onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes. Convinced at that time that he was the last of the Hunts, Erno Diederich began to be called Hunt Diederich when he was 10 years...
...could furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting and the encouragement of young talent pulled him sufficiently out of himself to argue rich Miss Lizzie Bliss, richer Mrs. John D. Rockefeller into becoming collectors and patrons of modern art, made him a hard working organizer of the historic Armory Show of 1913 that brought the French moderns to the attention of the U. S. public...
...hand and the feelings of its own patrons on the other combine to make the cinema's view of matrimony at most times a highly sympathetic one. Consequently the current cinema season may well be remembered for the way in which two first-class pictures have revealed two rich and respectable U. S. wives as altogether worthless characters. Dodsworth (TIME. Sept. 28) showed one who lost her husband by trying to remold him in her own pattern of a social climber. Craig's Wife, adapted from the George Kelly Pulitzer Prize play of 1926, shows another who loses...
...that invaded her home. Freed by a friendly Justice of the Peace she escaped another gang, returned to New Orleans, married the wealthy owner of Hinkley's California Express. She was arrested for mistreating slaves and for taking part in a voodoo orgy, later succeeded in trapping a rich widower named Stephens and persuading him to flee with her to Mexico at the outbreak of the Civil War. Stephens, who carried $65,000 in cash with him, died mysteriously in Texas and Fanny Sweet returned to New Orleans, became a Confederate spy, prospered...