Word: wealth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lure of sunshine has brought California wealth. It has also brought her thousands of families who possess poverty, an old car, and a genial disposition to bask and wait for someone to feed them. Well-stocked with indigents of her own, California has tried unsuccessfully to discourage unwanted guests with hostile police, stingy charitarians, hard-work camps, even jail or embargoes at the State line...
...Lord (Miss Hepburn). Lenor Lonergan proves that not all child prodigies are in Hollywood. Borrowed from the Mercury Theatre, Joseph Cotten proves that some good guys can be found among the rich. Also outstanding are Shirley Booth, as the sharp, brittle-tongued photographer and Van Heflen as the liberal, wealth-bating and Luce hating reporter...
...Flanders (now Belgium) 600 years ago, painting was just another craft. Like brewers, dyers and weavers who were .hen bringing wealth to its free cities, painters were organized in solid guilds. They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...
...petition in New York Supreme Court to have their 14-year-old son, Peter Salm, support him ($20,000 a year for himself, $10,000 a year for the expense of having his son visit, $35,000 for counsel fees). Reason: "It is the duty of a child possessing wealth to support a parent without funds...
...that a job is not worth-while because it pays $20 a week show how a liberal education can miss fire. These seniors who want to measure the worth of a job, or of a career by the cash return have forgotten King Midas who proved centuries ago that wealth is no key to happiness. . . --Brown Daily Herald...