Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Adolphe Schloss got rich in the export business in Paris, he started buying Dutch and Flemish old masters. By the time he died in 1910 he had one of the world's largest and finest private collections of them. They hung in the gallery of his mansion on the Avenue Henri Martin until the outbreak of World War II, when they were stuffed into crates and spirited away to the chateau of a friend at Tulle, in the south of France...
Right Voice. Said Rodgers: "What an actress!" Said Hammerstein: "And what a voice!" They signed her to play Bloody Mary. When audiences and critics agreed with Rodgers & Hammerstein, Juanita switched to champagne ("I love the stuff, and then I feel so bloody rich") and began shopping for a 14-room house to replace her apartment on Manhattan's St. Nicholas Terrace. Says she: "I want to make big money because I want to be comfortable myself, as who doesn't, and because there are a lot of people I want to help...
...Territory of Hawaii, people of Asiatic descent make up almost half the islands' 540,000 population. But in the tight little islands' economy, dominated by the sugar-factoring "Big Five," they have had little chance to get rich-until Ruddy Fah Tongg came along. Ruddy showed them...
Badge of Shame. Jamaicans regard it as a badge of their island's industrial shame that cement must be imported from England. Rich in limestone and gypsum, Jamaica has no cement plant. Jamaica's governor, Sir John Huggins, turned for help to World Commerce Corp.'s Sir William Stephenson, who winters in Jamaica...
...Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...