Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born rich (in 1832), Manet decided early on his lifework and never had to compromise. Art school, he complained, was "like entering a tomb," but he spent six years buried there, learning to paint studio nudes in various shades of tobacco juice. When he had all the fashionable tricks cold, Manet started traveling, copied masterpieces in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Italy. After such a training, he submitted his personal experiments to the Salon-Paris' high court...
Texas has more big-time chicken men than any other state, headed by ex-Boxer Bobby Manziel, who struck it rich wildcatting for oil on $700 borrowed from his friend, Jack Dempsey. Manziel has a special plane to carry his chickens to & from fights. Not counting bets, the sport costs Manziel about $25,000 a year...
When President Juan Vicente Gómez died in 1935, after 27 years as dictator of oil-rich Venezuela, he was worth millions. Last week, Rómulo Betancourt, who had just turned over the presidency to Novelist Rómulo Gallegos (TIME, Feb. 23) after two years in office, was almost broke...
...Albina who insisted that they go up in the mountains and work the claim, which had reverted to Simon. She tended the llama-dung fire, melted the snow for drinking water, and prodded Simon on when he tired of hacking away at the mountainside. When he finally struck the rich lode that became the fabulous La Salvadora mine, she helped load the sacks with ore, bring it down on llama-back, and grind it on a millstone...
...their luck to find the rich mine just when European supplies of tin were running out. Soon Bolivia was overrun with tin-hunters. When Simon foolishly agreed to sign away the mine for $350,000, iron-willed Albina knocked the pen from his hand...