Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landsberg argued that his particles were bits of iron-rich material arriving from space with the meteors, but he could not prove it. For one thing, many of them were sharply wedge-shaped. They did not look as if they had received the terrific heating that meteorites usually...
...dress makes him distinctive, too. The story goes that Curley came over to Cambridge at the outset of his career and bought a second-hand rich boy's suit from Max Keezer that he were for years as alderman and mayor. Now, you see him mostly in a cutaway; supposedly he once showed up in a tuxedo to shovel the first clod of earth for a foundation, complaining that he hadn't hat time to change his clothes after a formal luncheon...
...England with a stern husband (Claude Rains) old enough to be her father. The pumpkin which gets her away from it all is a primitive talking-machine and a handful of Caruso recordings which she keeps hidden in a hillside cave for solitary recitals. Her prince charming is a rich city slicker (Macdonald Carey) who whisks her off to a nearby metropolis for an innocent, giddy evening of champagne and waltzes...
...young people into a pretty kettle of fishy dilemmas and New England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry Hull's rich mint-julep accent served up as a deep-dish Yankee drawl...
...Paris, Guy found rich compensations for his drudgery. He was befriended by the great novelist Gustave Flaubert and brought into the master's Sunday literary circle. There he sat at the feet of Europe's literary greats: Turgenev, Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Hippolyte Taine and occasionally Henry James. Zola remembered De Maupassant as "a proud he-man [who] told us dumfounding stories about women, amorous swaggerings that sent Flaubert into roars of laughter...