Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich and cultured Harvardman like his late uncle, 34-year-old Boies II has hitherto devoted himself to scholarship and society, is the owner of a notable collection of etchings, engravings, manuscripts and rare books. When he decided few months ago to make a career for himself in politics, leaders of Philadelphia's Republican machine warmly welcomed a young man with so potent a name, so fat a pocketbook. Candidate Penrose, who owns a 125-acre estate on the Main Line at swank Devon where he takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile...
This speech was read to the Conference by Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, 69, of Washington, a suave, well-dressed cleric who has a rich wife and gets good fees for lectures and sermons. Declared Keynoter Hughes: "Property, whether among ministers or merchants, is not proof of iniquity. In many individual cases the profit motive has been joined by the benevolent motive, as multiplied evidences would show...
...Manhattan last week rich old Mr. Benet parried interviewers with: "Why should you want to write about me? I'm just a horny-handed engineer. I'm not interesting. My nephews are." Nephews are Poets William Rose Benet and Stephen Vincent Benet...
...farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries, with the help of Mrs. Mortar (Catherine Doucet), and the fortunes of all three accused are ruined. So runs the tale, a very interesting and at times absorbing one. The mad little girl...
...familiar novels from their printed pages to the screen. Many who would be frightened away by its true-story title will be relieved to know that "I Married a Doctor" is a neat scenarioizing of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." Stylized, the plot is of a young woman rich in parts who comes to be the wife of Dr. Kennicott, and must breast all the bigotry of Williamsburg, a mid-western town. She is unfortunate in her open treatment of the men, secures the whole hearted ill will of their wives, and is ridiculed when she attempts landscape architecture...