Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of his plan he got a job as a bartender at the quietly aristocratic Plaza, a hotel which was frequented by many rich and famous men of the day, among them Diamond Jim Brady-"an overstuffed pig, with his stickpins all in little animal shapes." O'Dwyer stayed there three years, studying shorthand in his spare time, brushing up on his Spanish, and yearning for the export business. Then came disillusionment; the export business wanted no part of a bartender...
...front of his rickety wagon, an old gypsy said: "The past is dead. Gypsies cease their wandering. The race is the same but the spirit is going. Too many gypsies have grown rich. Even Coucou settled down. No one can take his place just now, maybe never." The old gypsy's grandchildren were busy admiring the shiny new trailer of a rich gypsy family camped alongside. On a lot nearby, young gum-chewing gypsies jitterbugged...
...others, "nature's rich, black topsoil" has almost mystical value; once lost, it can never be restored. The fact is, explains Dr. Kellogg, that many virgin soils, especially in the forested eastern U.S., were not productive originally; they had to be nursed to fertility. Some highly productive soils never had a dark upper layer...
...study for an M.A. at either Columbia or the University of Chicago. But he will come back to a country school ("That's where I want to be"). He doesn't worry much about his $1,650 salary: "I didn't enter teaching to get rich...
...main plot: Orson, a "philosophical" merchant seaman who finds it "very sanitary to be broke," signs for a long yacht cruise because Rita Hayworth, who much prefers to be filthy rich, will be aboard. For love of her, he also signs a phony confession to a supposedly phony murder. When the murder turns out to be real, Orson finds himself caught in a frame and the toils of the law. He escapes, literally, through an optical illusion: the real villains of the piece mow each other down in an amusement park's House of Mirrors...