Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock (he was so excited about it at the time that he used gleefully to point to every Chrysler he saw on the street) made him temporarily rich. He kept enough pelf for comfort, is not "socialistic because of the Crash." Revisiting Harvard in 1924, Ben Cohen walked into his old room. The current occupant was out. His name was Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. They did not meet until nine years later, when T. G. Corcoran had been...
...rich Russia- should go in for wood-burning motor trucks Moscow observers easily explained. The mighty Soviet oil fields do not of course spout gasoline; Russian cracking plants have given trouble; the gasoline has to be shipped thousands of miles; but almost everywhere in Russia wood is abundant...
...good hearty meal of corned beef, cabbage and boiled potatoes is not only a pleasure to the palate but a pretty pill, for the vegetables are rich in Vitamin C. But not everyone who tucks into this dish is assured of firm joints and healthy blood capillaries, for Vitamin C is a delicate thing, easily destroyed by combination with oxygen or improper cooking. Last week in Nature, Physiologists A. Høygaard and H. Waage Rasmussen of the University of Oslo, Norway reported the results of extensive potato-boiling. They found "16-19% more ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] left when...
Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted...
Author Zugsmith's characters talk their share of balderdash. They pause in two dullish chapters to discuss martyrdom of left-wing professors and preachers. Nevertheless, their talk has the ring of an uncracked Liberty bell, rich with authentic undertones, strident with neurotic overtones. If Leane Zugsmith s novels have not been monuments, they have been milestones along the U. S. road. This novel, her sixth, indicates that she is still headed in the proper direction, uphill, going places...