Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there lived in Boston a rich, well-contented man whose calling was the manufacture of mineral paint. He was a primitive; his wealth had been the result of unflagging luck and savage industry. The little family--there were two girls--lived in Nankeen Square, the East End and their's was the happy, quiet life of unoriginal, elementary people...
...tragedy. There was to be a house in Back Bay, for Back Bay fifty, years ago was very much the same as it is today, and so, unfortunately, was the East End. There was the gradual acquaintance with one of the good families who lived on coupons and the wealth of sea faring ancestors--very much in their time like paint manufacturers in 1875. But it couldn't be done. There were heartbreaks and failures, there were blunders and embarrassments, there were snobbery and humiliations. The paint man couldn't understand, he never understood, why his daughters...
...with a backroom for an office, finds few paying patients. He has long hard hours at a neighborhood clinic. It is his idea of happiness, however, to know that he is relieving a little the suffering he has seen everywhere about him since childhood. His fame but not his wealth grows until, realizing a debt to his family, he becomes a fashionable doctor with offices on Park Avenue. He becomes dazzled by his own glitter. When his father dies under his hands, the blow is too much. He loses his nerve, only recovers it back on the dirty East Side...
...must volunteer to accept its measure of the responsibility of carrying our Nation forward." In his inaugural address Dr. Hutchison flayed the "false, materialistic doctrine" of going to college "because it pays," praised the oldtime college education which was "inviting only to those who did not set profit or wealth as their main objectives in life." Washington & Jefferson, chartered in 1787, is the oldest college west of the Alleghenies. Some of its original land is said to have been given by George Washington. Among its alumni: the late Composer Stephen Collins Foster ("Swanee River," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky...
...cancer pains by holding her in his arms. The stage is set for the struggle between Philip Crow, the rich industrialist who expected to inherit Canon Crow's money and industrialize all Glastonbury with its help, and John Geard, who with the help of his new-found wealth and the communist enemies of Philip Crow, gets himself elected mayor of the town. To advertise Glastonbury to the world at large, Mayor Geard stages a Passion Play, crossed with Arthurian Romance, for the town is near Stonehenge, and Arthur's sword and the Holy Grail make their appearances...