Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least of his personal troubles is financial. Contrary to tradition, and to legend, Douglas is not a rich man. His grandfather's fortune has already been dispersed; his father's is locked up in Canada, where Rawhide Jim retired in an anti-New Deal huff in 1939. With only $53,570 a year in pay and allowances to run the London Embassy, Lew is forced to dig deep into his own savings...
...siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there was no truth in the rumors...
Vainglorious Lout. Up & down the land from a thousand wagons and soapboxes her rich voice called for Home Rule. "Thousands who come to see this new wonder, a beautiful woman who makes speeches," wrote Yeats, "remain to listen with delight. . . . The papers of Russia, France, Germany and even Egypt quote her speeches, and the tale of Irish wrongs has found its way hither and thither...
...hottest report of the week: that the Cards would be sold for $3,500,000 to a syndicate headed by Postmaster General Robert Hannegan and the three movie-rich Skouras brothers...
...Well Remembered (Rank; RKO Radio). Once upon a time, in a beastly old castle, lived a beastly old man and his Beautiful Daughter (Martha Scott). They were wicked, of course, because they were rich. Down in the village lived a Promising Young Man (John Mills) who was good, because he was poor...