Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this there was greater applause which quite startled even the Dormouse and brought a rich crimson to Alice's cheeks. And it all did please the Vagabond very much...
...city, London bigwigs were to be heard saying with approval that what "they" are now thinking about is to revive the effect of certain obscure pre-War secret treaties and engagements. Under these Britain was to have looked on understandingly while potent Germans obtained as peacefully as possible rich lands in Africa now belonging to impotent Portugal...
...stage mysteries which, unable to compete with the range and detail of cinema thrillers, depend for their excitement upon foolish exaggeration and lots of low comedy. For almost three acts, I Want a Policeman is motivated by the fact that every time somebody tries to tell somebody else how rich Mr. Davidson died, nobody will listen. Meanwhile, a boob policeman (Harold Moffet), a silly Englishwoman (Estelle Winwood) and an eccentric youngster (Clinton Sundberg) try for laughs...
Critics promptly hailed him as the greatest U. S. primitive painter since Pittsburgh's John Kane. There was much similarity in their work. Artist Hoyer, like Artist Kane, painted ingenuous landscapes of pink and yellow houses under cloudy skies with plenty of rich green trees. Also like Artist Kane, there was a great deal more shrewd technique in Artist Hoyer's paintings than appeared at first glance. Pittsburgh's Kane got much attention from the Press because he had once been a housepainter. Chicago's Hoyer was the first able painter that anyone could remember...
First U. S. installation of invisible glass was made last September at Marcus & Co., Manhattan jewelers. To startled passersby, it seemed that rich jewels and rare diamonds were theirs for the taking. Last week the illusion became something of a reality. Some miscreant, gazing at a jewelry-display behind the invisible pane, returned with hammer & chisel, chopped a hole in invisibility, walked off with three diamond rings worth $36,000. Police soon caught the culprit, recovered two of the three rings. Other invisible glass windows have been installed at the Chrysler Building showroom, Lord & Taylor's, Brooks Bros...