Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken in at Oxford, October next. Yet I have not heard much of Wadham College save it looks a pretty ruin with fresh gardens. This is a virtue I like very much for it will be fine in the Spring, and did not many a rich philosophy begin in a garden? By and by comes ___ and, all a bubble, brings me his album; a mighty fine job it is, yet, bless my soul, for an address book ten dollars 'is very steep...
...with 72 Communists and a Socialist-dominated majority, this was actually a very pale pink. Last week the French Press blazed with the boasts, threats and possible and probable intentions of just one man: Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Aside from France's money troubles (see p. 71), this rich old Jew last week made news at every breath...
Meat-eating Eskimos suffer from nosebleed because their blood is over-rich in red cells. Dr. Rabinowitch thinks the overproduction of red cells is due to the abundance of copper in seafood. Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes, he believes, because long ago those who might have been susceptible died before they could breed susceptible children. He found only one case of what might have been cancer, several cases of arteriosclerosis among Eskimos living at the white settlements. No such cases were located among the most northerly, isolated Eskimos...
...State in charge of Latin American affairs, and Dr. Ross Mclntire, President Roosevelt's White House physician whose ear Dr. Eller had held for many an hour. When Dr. Eller ceased speaking President Roosevelt warmed him with a smile, told him to turn the $7,000,000 of rich men's promises he had in his briefcase into cash, to start building soon as possible, and to go to Buenos Aires next autumn and tell the whole story to President Roosevelt's forthcoming Pan American Conference...
This experience in lay writing started Maxwell Anderson, University of North Dakota, II, in a field of rich creation. Before then, he had vascillated between an academic career (school teaching in the Dakotas and the English department at Stanford) and writing for pay (newspaper work on two coasts, east and west). After What Price Glory he wrote nearly a hit a year. In 1930 it was Elizabeth the Queen, in 1933 Mary of Scotland. Both Your Houses won the Politzer prize. A month of so ago his friendly enemies, the New York critics, awarded him a plaque for having written...