Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They have been off on week-ends and house parties. They have smoked in the Old Howard, and they have dined on Beacon Hill. They have tried for magnas and they have tried for C's. They have lived for four terribly short years in the richest, greatest, most impersonal, greatly loved, best known, most revered, finest University in America. And now they are graduating. Four days of foam upon a charted ocean. Who would not weep for Adonais...
Pools. Any Wall Streeter knows, but few Senators do, how pools are run. Because the risks are great, the pool's sponsor usually invites only his richest friends to form a syndicate. Each shares in the profits (or losses) in proportion to his subscription. Each usually makes a cash deposit for the pool manager to use as margin in his trading operations. Each is pledged to strict secrecy. With dictatorial powers, the pool manager begins accumulating stock, buying a little more each day than he sells. Stock is dumped if the price rises noticeably. When the manager...
Added Columbia's loud Professor Walter Boughton Pitkin, historian of Stupidity (TIME, April 4), co-summarizer: "The best thing which the richest, most influential and most ambitious graduates of American colleges during the past 40 years have been able to achieve is to send 127,000,000 people into bankruptcy and mess up all of North America...
...book is dedicated to "That Oldest, Noblest, Richest of Harvard Institutions, the Yard", and 16 pages of it are given over to articles and old engravings showing its growth. Another interesting feature of the publication is the appearance, in nearly every drawing, of a bewhiskered gentleman who, it was learned from the editors, is none other than "John Harvard--modern version--reincarnated by the class...
...Rich Are Always With Us (Warner) is a story of sacrifice, divorce and romance among the serious rich. It is also any egocentric woman's dream of the life she would like to be able to look back on. Ruth Chatterton, as one of the richest women in the world, resists her hero (George Brent) to be true to her husband (John Miljan) who is opportunely snared by another woman (Adrienne Dore). Miss Chatterton is free to suffer a little, agreeably, and say the right, the irreproachable things to her husband's hussy. She gets a divorce...