Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleveland cabdrivers expected a rich harvest in tips. They didn't mind the short hauls and being kept constantly busy; they knew that the GOP was the rich men's party and that all Republicans were living on hopes, after "three long years" of the New Deal. One jehu tells of a $2.95 trip and the outstretched hand for the nickel in change! Another tells of hauling six and receiving a thin dime...
...University is so rich it is poor. Like a little boy who has inherited a fortune, but who, because of the bigotry of his parents, can spend it on kiddy cars and patent leather slippers, but not on licorice and other things that would make a better man of him, the University is prohibited from spending anything but the interest derived from her oil and grazing lands, and that only on physical improvement...
...Defense's hospitable Marquise Rouge was last week a key to understanding the new Cabinet. Its political supporters, 381 Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists, are not such austere champions of the masses but what they, like many British Laborites, are glad when occasion offers to dine with the rich...
...last decade, U. S. polo has experienced sweeping changes. Once practiced only by rich patricians, it has lately become popular among cowboys in the Southwest, cinemagnates in California. Once watched by socialites only, New York polo matches in the last few years have drawn crowds as large as baseball games. Determined to make polo in England more profitable, London's swank Hurlingham Club last month made the brave gesture of announcing that it would open its grounds to the public for the Westchester Cup series against the U. S. Before play started, an announcement in the London Times reassured...
...what will happen to it. I to tell them I do not know, but I know at my heart it will not crumble. It is a good Tower built of whimsy stones and vagrant ideas. One day another Vagabond, poor perhaps in purse, but rich in sentiment and imagination will stop by and see it and through the seeing make...