Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Overnight 50,000 persons, prospectors and their families, settled down in a district until recently boastful of 300 inhabitants. During the week diamonds valued at $180,000 were discovered or unearthed. Itinerant prospectors were vexed when it was touted that the 30 athletes who sprinted ahead of them to richest pay dirt, were employed by a mining syndicate...
Engaged. Lydia Archbold, next richest (Ailsa Mellon was the richest) Washington society girl; to Elliott Strauss, $2,000 a year ensign-son of Rear Admiral Joseph R. Strauss...
...time by the Americans." Governor General Leonard Wood had been there three days before, had left without waiting for the Emissary. Strong men strained, heaved up anchor and Mr. Thompson again resumed his comfortable deck chair, gazed about as the boat proceeded down the coast of Mindanao, richest undeveloped island under the U. S. flag. Occasionally the party would land and thereupon be presented with the usual requests to continue U. S. rule. As his good ship lay off Zamboanga, Mr. Thompson was told that a Filipino-Moro clash had broken out over a question as to which delegation should...
...service. This swordplay, these daggers by night and poisoned wine-goblets; a Milanese tyrant blood-hounding men for sport; a hundred delicate situations saved by Macchiavelian wit or pretty compliments; and Bellarion, "half god, half beast," rising to power and at last claiming the lady-these are swiftest, richest Sabatini, than whom no sword-and-cloak man is more deservingly remembered, in the public's orisons...
...between his alb and his tunicle. The spangles across his chest supply the illusion of the cross. It signifies a yoke. In the Eastern Church instead of being a strip, the stole is a square with a hole for the head slit in one corner. It is probably the richest of Eastern vestments and in churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress to a gold plate...