Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instant had I risen to the occasion. I had thought of nothing except to get back to ... my former life." And he is not above riding it high & mighty over his erring wife. Ridiculous, ordinary, but very human, little Cerusier is one of the richest literary creations of the year...
...thirtyish. Said Tommy: "I don't know her very well, I've only had lunch with her once or twice, [but] this time I am quietly and calmly in love with a woman mature both in mind and body. I think this could be one of the richest experiences of my life...
...points. At 94⅜ it was selling at more than three times last year's low. Investors liked the Nipper not because it was a railroad, but because it owns or has mineral rights on 3,200,000 acres of land in Williston Basin, the nation's richest new oilfield. Its rise surprised thousands of bears who had thought the stock too high after a big previous rise and sold it short. Last week, as the shorts frantically bought to avoid heavier losses, they drove the stock still higher...
Encore (Rank; Paramount] brings Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham back for a merited cinematic reprise with an ex pertly packaged omnibus of three enter taining short stories: i ) The ironic Ant and the Grasshopper, in which a ne'er-do-well playboy (Nigel Patrick) marries the third richest girl in the world, buys back the family estate his hard-working brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother...
Grand Right and Left, by Louis Kronenberger. A deftly witty farce about the richest man in the world and his compulsions as a collector (TIME...