Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich colony at Newport suffered worse than their friends at Southampton. Bailey's Beach. Ocean Drive and the Clambake Club were demolished. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's sculpture studio was torn off its cliff. Mrs. Jock Whitney's aunt, Mrs. John C. Norris and her son John C. Jr., were drowned in their car as they tried to motor from Narragansett Pier. In a house at Misquamicut, ten women holding a church social were drowned...
...still further east, and Amagansett, were in worse case. More than four in every ten of their stately elms crashed. The sea rushed up and over the dunes to lash even at the Maidstone Country Club on its high bluff, obliterating the golf course and 50 prize flower gardens. Rich summer colonists and poor fisher folk suffered alike. Falling trees crushed the Maidstone Hotel. The Bridgehampton freight station was shunted smack across the tracks...
...most interesting fact revealed is that on the whole the current Freshman is not interested in making money. Some of the 79 who voted for law may think they are going to get rich, but there can be no illusions of wealth in the minds of the 60 and 47 who voted for medicine and teaching, respectively...
...with fighting but with respite from fighting, it investigates a group of French inmates of a German prison camp. The prisoners-principally an austere patrician, Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), his mechanic, Marechal (Jean Gabin), and a generous fellow, Rosenthal (Dalio), who shares the canned delicacies sent by his rich family-naturally try to escape. Director Renoir, however, builds his plot, not around the success or failure of this enterprise, but around their relations with each other, with their guards, with the gloomy German officer, von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim) in whose fortress they are finally interned...
George MacDonald and Henry L. Doherty have long had much in common. They have known each other 30 years. Both got rich in utilities. Both have grey-white hair, blue-grey eyes, and are the same height. George is 63, Henry is 68. George says they have been so close that he used to get Henry's love letters, Henry his business letters. Last week George and Henry had a new common denominator- Florida and Bahama real estate...