Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened a suite in the building recently vacated by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, spent some $3,000 on fixtures, including a huge bronze of the Lion of Lucerne, set out to become a paid legal lion not only for the Federation but for some of its rich affiliates. Since then he has ably represented the Federation before Congressional committees and NLRB, in so doing has aroused the suspicions of some A. F. of L. executive councilmen, who feel that Attorney Padway's appetite for profitable publicity may outgrow the bounds befitting a hired hand...
...which drains down onto its bogs and the Tyrrhenian Sea. What is now Littoria was, before the days of Ancient Rome, an extremely fertile country whose natives, the Volsci, were adept at maintaining the ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently...
Soak Everybody! Because the rich have been so drastically soaked for years in the United Kingdom (where many taxes are clearly confiscatory), Sir John Simon in effect made the keynote of his new Budget "Soak everybody...
...dictator trying to run things on a strictly authoritarian basis, the devastating technique of Popeye the Sailor-man in dealing with bulldozers is bound to be disturbing. Last week in Berlin Nazi censors decided Popeye's spinachy vigor was getting a mite too rich for Aryan blood, banned one of his latest cinema cartoons, Popeye's Parrot...
...tall, broad, swashbuckling hero is dimple-chinned John Carroll (real name: Julian La Faye), a little-known player who resembles Ronald Colman, has a hint of Douglas Fairbanks' agility, and sings in a rich, concert-trained baritone...