Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to the Manhattan firm of Sparkman & Stephens, whose Partner Olin Stephens in 1931 skippered the 52-foot racing yawl Dorade across the Atlantic in 17 days, 2 hours 14 minutes, later was a codesigner of Harold Vanderbilt's Cup-winning Ranger. As a specialist in sailboats for rich men, famed young (30) Mr. Stephens left the designing of a motored mosquito to his expert helper, Gilbert Wyland, was modestly annoyed when Designer Wyland gave the credit to his boss. Another $15,000 for the best 54-footer was won by Henry B. Nevins, Inc.'s George...
...wife, she is about to make a second marriage (with the wrong man) in the same holier-than-thou manner. On the eve of the wedding, various well-wishers file by to tell her what an impossible little prig she is. But it remains for an agin-the-rich magazine writer from Destiny (sister publication of the picture-magazine Spy and of "brief, bluff, belligerent" Dime) to queer the marriage, convert the girl and be converted in turn. In the course of a little drunken midnight swimming in the nude, he teaches her that lots of nice people are human...
...gifts of lucidity and feeling to the unsolved problems of Italian art. One of his earliest and most famous feats was the creation of a hypothetical Florentine artist, Amico di Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that Berenson became rich. In the 40 rooms of the Villa I Tatti he collected a profusion of fine Renaissance furniture and paintings...
...Heidelberg -announced in a promotion booklet that henceforth it would exercise such precautions as checking college degrees. F. Donald Coster's surname and his early "Girard & Co.", speculated Who's Who, might have come from one Gerard F. Coster who was mentioned in a biographical compilation of rich New Yorkers published...
Several months ago, Physiologist George Burrill Ray of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine had a hunch that large quantities of a food rich in glycine might do the trick. Last week he announced the remarkable results of experiments with ordinary gelatin, which is 25% glycine...