Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necked relatives and friend (Colin Clive) to whom she is engaged. Warren William, who kisses her twice before he has met her, wins the duchess by helping her out of her pickle. It is all very amusing, with good dialogue and a decent enough rehash of the old Idle Rich-Idle Nobility plot sequence to command interest. Warren Hymer is good as an American gangster who steals back a letter of the Duchess's from social climber Louise Fazenda...
Santa Monica, in whose confines live rich and poor alike, enjoying life in its fullness, life at its best. The end of the trail for thousands from every nook & cranny of the world. The residence, by choice, by preference, of the outstanding movie colony of the great industry within our gates...
...hope some day to see in San Francisco's Civic Centre-a charming crossroads-a bust of Stephen Girard, with that wistful look of human kindness that begets a rich man's philanthropy, where he might smile at Leland Stanford across the corridor of time...
...written before they were translated successively into Semitic-sounding Greek and Latin. Two years ago Dr. Lamsa translated the four Gospels into English from early Aramaic texts, arrived at such variants as: It is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven...
...genius in the world." This minority opinion is delivered not by Author Christina Stead herself but by one of her characters; but she writes as if it were true. The Beauties and Furies, like her earlier books (The Salzburg Tales, Seven Poor Men of Sydney) is something rich and strange, bears the same relation to workaday life as Ariel's song to a drowned...