Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yugo-Slavia is one of the richest and last known regions in Europe, from the stand point of ancient civilizations, for this area was the first recipient of Original culture, and in its turn, transmitted the new traits to the rest of continental Europe...
...wife, lovely dark-haired Mme Stavisky. A onetime dress model known as Arlette Simon, she married Swindler Stavisky shortly after the police raided a gay little dinner they both attended in the suburbs in 1926, bore him two handsome children, and acquired some of the finest clothes, the richest jewels in Paris...
...vast were the oil holdings of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of wildcatters," "richest independent operator in the world," that even after he sold the major part of his Southwestern leases to Prairie Oil in 1929 for $35,000,000, he still had 112 wells in Oklahoma producing 20,000 bbl. a day. These holdings, known as the Slick-Urschel Oil Co., have been managed since his death by Charles F. Urschel, ransomed from kidnappers last summer (TIME, July 31, Aug. 7), and by Mrs. Slick who became Mrs. Urschel. Slick Oil has sold most of its output...
...Mount started off with a promising overture, stanch and hymnal. After that the orchestra seemed capable of only the most commonplace description. The Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...
...Everything (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Set unconvincingly at the turn of the century, this picture presents Hannah Bell (May Robson), a stubborn, avaricious, domineering old widow who is "the richest woman in the world." What Hannah Bell cannot buy are love and happiness. She saves money by living in cheap lodgings, making her son's clothes, putting him in a charity hospital. She bullies her bankers. When she grudgingly gives money for a free clinic it is only for spite, to take business away from private practitioners. Throughout the years it is her aim to ruin a banker (Lewis Stone...