Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Casino at Cannes, won 12,000,000 francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled him into buying it on the spot. All this & more she eventually spent or hocked...
...respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only really fresh face belongs to Frank Latimore, who plays Chicago department-store tycoon Irving Netcher (who is Rosie's current, real-life husband...
...their letters home, the Americans would remark that in Seoul the palaces face south, the city wall is all but gone, a tycoon is a yang ban, the favorite dish is shinsunro (beef, eggs, fish, chestnuts, etc.), the housewives wash their white clothes endlessly, and countrymen still wear miniature, translucent top hats, the traditional insigne of the married man. Very friendly people, too-everybody beaming and waving, and the children tagging along behind jeeps shrieking "Hello! hello...
Later (1925) came Arrowsmith, an onslaught on the mass production of doctors and mass practice and humbuggery of medicine, a romantic apotheosis of the medical scientist. Dodsworth (1929), the esthetic and amatory adventures of Samuel Dodsworth, automobile tycoon, and his wife in the cultured lands of Europe was a modern Innocents Abroad. Elmer Gantry (dedicated to Henry L. Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George...
...Franklin Weber, 66, longtime (1920-1934) autocratic president of whopping, $500,000,000 Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., which he and Eugene Meyer organized after World War I as a holding and operating company surpassing any European competitor; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Socialist labor leader, Tycoon Weber had such a fetish for secrecy that no firm member could appear in Who's Who or have his picture taken for publication. Not until the New York Stock Exchange threatened in 1933 to remove Allied's 2,400,000 shares from its lists did the corporation...