Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became dissatisfied with his woodcuts after making a few impressions, altered details that displeased him, strengthened effects that he liked. Curator of prints, Carl O. Schneiwind, who assembled the show and is revising the Guérin catalogue of Gauguin's prints, believes that as Gauguin's rich paintings resemble tapestry, his woodcuts resemble murals. To prove it he made a photographic enlargement of Gauguin's biggest woodcut, dramatized his thesis that Gauguin was a natural muralist who could not find, either in stuffy Parisian houses or South Sea huts, walls to work upon...
...rich Argentine, about whom, when he is assassinated, Bertillon philosophizes: "Tigers are hard to catch: thank God the world has one less...
...Young controls Alleghany Corp., top holding company in the former Van Sweringen railroad empire. William Potter is board chairman of Guaranty Trust Co., which holds, as collateral on bonds now in technical default, Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp., middle link in the chain between Alleghany and rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Financiers Young and Potter have been on the mat for months to see which shall dominate C. & O. (TIME, April...
...people fight and?devour one another like spiders in a pot." Running to 795 pages, told in 104 cinematic scenes, House of All Nations takes for its pot the luxurious Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing business in "grapples, clinches, blackmails, plunges, lucky breaks, long odds, lowdowns, big gambles, and secret bookkeeping...
...under Author Stead's high-powered microscope, there are 125 assorted spiders-brokers, customers' men, blackmailers, toadies, shysters, Packingtown countesses, Blue Coast playboys, a bank glamor-girl, a society medium. But although every nation has its representative, the fighting is not on nationalistic lines. "No rich man," says Jules Bertillon, "is a patriot, no rich man a friend. They have all only got one fatherland-the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend-the mistress they're promising to divorce their wife for." Some of the spiders...