Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month in his Baltimore suburban home, was originally planned as an adjunct to the musical education of the Johnson children but now includes more grown-ups-Mrs. Johnson, a physician, a dentist, a kindergarten teacher, a psychoanalyst, three little girls and a female violinist (Charity) who conducts. Comparatively rich in amateur groups, Baltimore also has a "Sunday Night Group" organized by Editor Hamilton Owens of the Sun, an oboeist, which includes his wife (violin), Biologist Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins, his daughter, Mrs, Gardner Jencks, her husband and, as conductor, Bart Wirtz, head of Peabody Institute of Music...
...such a "good society," ruled by no personal ruler but by the impersonal necessities of economic markets in which governments take part only by regulating against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...
Doodlebugs first appeared in the U. S. in Los Angeles in 1919 when a group of rich youngsters built midget cars to race around the Junior College Stadium, but midget racing as a recognized U. S. sport is less than five years old. In 1932 a field of eight midgets raced 20 laps around the football field of Los Angeles' Loyola High School. In 1934 Oilman Earl Gilmore built a stadium for midgets at a cost of $134,000. The Gilmore track was soon drawing crowds as large as 9,000, and shortly thereafter a onetime Hearst cameraman named...
...died three years ago, but the French Casino, also a remodeled theatre, is still packing in its 1,500 patrons, has become probably the best-known nightclub in the U. S. Last week, as 100,000 visiting Legionaries romped through the streets, they found scores of nightspots where the rich pickings were mutual. If they wanted the very largest, very latest thing, they trooped into the just-opened International Casino, "world's largest'' night club (capacity...
...little England's 49 counties, 38,173,950 inhabitants, there are enough queer characters to people a small planet. Some of these oddities are rich, most of them are eminently respectable. Last fortnight, when the British Museum bought the Ashley Library, a posthumous footnote was added to the career of one of England's rich, respected, eccentric individuals. Thomas James Wise was not only the collector and owner of the world's finest private collection of English literature. He was a literary forger...