Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listeners in the radio-haunted U.S. have ever heard America's most ambitious radio program. Yet it is a show that would probably get a higher Nielsen-rating than Amos 'n' Andy (if a rating could be taken), has the richest sponsor of them all, and sells the world's most priceless product. The sponsor is Uncle Sam and the product freedom. The program is the Voice of America...
...foreign listener who bases his mental image of the U.S. on what the Voice tells him will get a picture of a vast land, incredibly resourceful and technically more advanced than any country on earth. It is also the freest country, and the richest-though the people he will meet (a remarkably large number of them called Smith and Brown) will rarely be obtrusively rich. Like the run of U.S. citizens, he will hardly ever meet a millionaire. The Smiths and the Browns own a one-family house (there is probably a mortgage on it, but at very low interest...
...richest marriage prize of the middle ages, Eleanor married two kings and was the mother of two more. Cultured, spirited, and ambitious, she was an amazon on the Second Crusade, a lover at the Court of Poitiers, and a ruler ("by the wrath of God" as she put it) in her old age. Intellectual revolt, crusades, and struggle between church and state, marked the twelfth century, and Eleanor managed to have something to do with all of them. Miss Kelly user her as a "binder" for her history...
Three Oranges is certainly the broadest burlesque ever set on an opera stage, and the richest fun ever made out of grand opera's robustious airs. Composer Prokofiev's score makes it a work of art as well. Witty, clean and colorful, it fits the Three Oranges like a second skin...
...depending on rank and custom), the use of red automobile license plates, and the right to be called Your Highness. Each prince is allowed one palace for everyday living and a second palace at a seashore or hill resort. The fattest purse goes to the Nizam of Hyderabad, fabled richest man in the world, who gets 5,000,000 rupees a year. The leanest, 192 rupees, goes to the Talukdar of Kadodia, lord of a tiny village in the Kathiawar desert...