Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have liked to run for political office, too, but each time, after casing the situation, he decided that the moment was not quite ripe. The trouble was that the mine workers' union was all-powerful in West Virginia politics, and to the union boys, Louis was just another rich lawyer. "Like a good woman's virtue," one politico explained recently, "Louis' conservatism is taken for granted in West Virginia...
...rich Po Valley and on the sunlit Roman plains, a strike call went out last week to 400,000 braccianti (landless farmhands). They wanted a nationwide contract, with better pay and job security, between their unions and the landowners. Months of collective bargaining had ended in deadlock-and Italy's most disturbing disorders since the Red riots of early...
Successor to Ponder? Even with their aces on the sidelines, Ben Jones & Partner Jimmy are not exactly badly off. Wistful, easily the outstanding three-year-old filly of the season after her victories in the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks, has drawn a sharp bead on this weekend's rich Coaching Club American Oaks. Calumet's 1949 Kentucky Derby winner, Ponder (son of Pensive), is one of the favorites for the Belmont Stakes two weeks hence...
...Maurin had slept in no bed of his own and worn no suit that someone had not given away. But to his funeral among the teeming, pushcart-crowded slums of lower Manhattan, Cardinal Spellman himself sent his representative. There were priests representing many Catholic orders, and there were laymen rich & poor from places as far away as Chicago. All night long before the funeral they had come to the rickety storefront where the body lay, to say a prayer or touch their rosaries to the folded hands. For many of them were sure that Peter Maurin was a saint...
...poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built, the most sought after, and, of course, one of the richest catches...