Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra of the crowded Madrid theatre which madly cheered Don Jose, sat Spain's reputed richest man, Count Romanones, quiet, alert, ready to jump with his millions to the side on which Victory should perch...
Charles T. Davis of Brooklyn, "World's Richest Convict," finished an eight-year sentence for murder at Dannemora Prison (Clinton, N. Y.). With $1,250,000 in travelers' checks, he left in a private car for California. During his imprisonment, caused by his killing a detective, his surgical supply business was sold for $2,500,000, part of which was turned over to his wife, from whom he has separated...
...first sound-picture, playing in a manner saturated with melancholy the role of a young woman who, innocently compromised, has been divorced by her husband. She goes to work as a dancer in a roof garden show and after a while becomes the mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover, can be foreseen by the end of the first reel. Corinne Griffith's charm...
...enough to cool the gold fever. Last week gold was struck in Poorman, Alaska, 50 miles south of Ruby on the Yukon River. Sergeant William N. Growden, U.S.A., obtained an Indian guide and dog team, proceeded from Ruby to Poorman, wired a report to the War Department. Excerpts: "RICHEST GOLD STRIKE IN HISTORY THIS CAMP. . . . EVERY MAN IN WHOLE VICINITY THAT CAN GET TRANSPORTATION . . . IS GOING OR GONE. . . . TEMPERATURE STILL 40 BELOW ZERO. BROKE PIECES FROM GROUND VARIOUS SECTIONS; HELD PAN WITH DIRT INTO TUB OF BOILING WATER TO THAW OUT, THEN PANNED A BUSHEL, FINDING ABOUT $2.96 WORTH FINE...
Married. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, twice-divorced second Duke of Westminster, most spectacular of England's richest peers; and Loelia Ponsonby, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, keeper of the Privy Purse; in London. To his bride the Duke gave the famed Porter-Rhodes diamond, to his tenants, remission of arrears, one week's rent...