Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house and his accordion. Of all the rooms in his house he likes the bathroom best. He is also fond of the recreation room in his basement, in which the first thing visitors see is a large sign saying: "IF YOU ARE SO SMART WHY AIN'T YOU RICH...
...most cherished citizens, Johann Strauss, the "Waltz King." The city's action seemed to be what the composer would have wished. When he died in 1899 he left his royalties to his Jewish widow; everything else to the Vienna Friends of Music Association. The widow, growing rich on royalties, bought up all the Straussiana she could, declaring she would leave it to the city. Instead, she left everything to her daughter by a previous husband, also named Strauss...
...best Straussiana-the original sheet music of his waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal...
...Willie's tales, which he learned from his grandmother and which takes hours to tell because it is replete with rich and often racy detail, concerns the tribulations of the Delawares after two women had misbehaved sexually with a dying bird. When the bird, dead, applied for admittance "up above where he should go," he could not get in because he was denied. That night a manitou (spirit) visited the Delaware chief, told him the tribe must atone for the wrong done to the bird. The manitou suggested that all the young women dance naked before...
...phane and Onésime Sabatier, a pair of broad-boned, high-cheeked young Huguenots, wanted respectively to be prosperous merchant and artist. Both started well, as Onésime eloped with his rich cousin, Cécile Renouvier, and Stéphane got Cécile's paunchy, grandiose father to back a Marseille importing firm for him. The brothers' ambitions were reversed when his wife's money gradually converted Onésime into a comfortable bourgeois and Stéphane, after being ruined in business by bulbous-eyed Solomon Lévy-Ruhlmann, turned...