Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult it is to arrive at the truth of this hotly contested point may be seen upon scrutinizing the "unanswerable" statement of the encyclical that at her richest the Roman Catholic Church of Mexico never collected "a donation of even as much as one peso from each member of the flock per year." A Mexican would point out that "the flock" includes in Roman Catholic computation hundreds of thousands of peasants who have only the vaguest religious concepts, and habitually confuse the Trinity with the native gods of old Mexico. Should "the flock" be pruned of all these semi-pagans...
...most important works of a man whose intellect has had few equals among the minds of the world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that it was Theotocopuli, but the Spaniards of Toledo, in whose country he passed the richest part of his life, found this name barbarous, and never wrote or spoke of him except as Dominico Greco. Great princes of the 16th Century, whose eyes were unsealed, honored him by this name; the men of nearer times, putting on once more fetters laid off in the Renaissance, wondered only...
Five years ago Brunhilde, the able sow in whose likeness the bronze was cast, nuzzled into a salt deposit in her master's yard. The deposit, exploited, has proved to be one of the richest table salt mines in Germany...
...farm boy and peddled on country roads until he could make the backs of barns, signboards and fence-rails peddle for him. "Beecham's Pills,"* the newspapers and country sides of England, eventually of the world (including Greenland), echoed and re-echoed. Sir Joseph died the third richest man in England ($140,000,000) in 1916, having virtually invented mass advertising-at least been its record utilizer. The genius that struck off those advertisements which some called vulgar, others "priceless," such as- Hark! the herald angels sing Beecham's pills are just the thing. Peace on earth...
Captain Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian billionaire: "I, who am sometimes reputed the richest man in Europe, was barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever...