Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were an ex-Pope, if he had a beauteous daughter, if she became secretly engaged to the eldest son of "The Richest Man in the World," then Catholics would be as excited as Moslems were last week...
Expenses of the Caliph's huge villa (a palace in size and ornate furnishings) are paid voluntarily by Islam's rich & pious, notably by His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, richest Indian potentate, reputedly "Richest Man in the World." In Nice last week the "secret engagement" of the Exalted Nizam's eldest son, Sahib Zada Nawah Azam Jah, to the Holy Caliph's beauteous daughter, Durri Chehvar, was ostentatiously bruited. If the secret proves popular with 200,000,000 Moslems it will become no secret but a thumping fact...
Biggest, most important showing of modern art in the U. S. is the Carnegie International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last month (TIME, Oct. 19). But the richest prizes go to winners at the Chicago Art Institute. Prizes, ranging from the Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Logan $2,500 first prize down to the William M. R. French memorial medal, total $7,500 as compared with $5,600 in Pittsburgh. Three juries finished their deliberations last week; medals were presented, checks delivered, the public admitted to pass on the juries' findings...
...story relates the adventures of a famed actress (Muriel Kirkland of Strictly Dishonorable and The Greeks Had a Word for It) who is pursued by the richest merchant in all Hungary (Ernest Glendenning) and a poor young engineer (Walter Abel). It takes four padded scenes, in which sub-characters pop in and out with the sombre precision of a cuckoo clock, and the conclusive click of a train gate to force the right pair into each other's arms...
...responsibility. They are, for the period of their stay at college, their own masters in many respects. Not they are too often victims of the illusion that all one learns at college are the "three R's", Rah, Rah, and Rah. The unfortunate illusion grases in many pastures. Its richest fields are parenthood careless of the ways of youth and press careful of vice and sensation...