Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decent" woman of wealth makes proper provision for the man who "lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...
...studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...
...many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators into which his wealth lifts...
Outshone the wealth of Ormus...
...lovely heroine leaves her funeral and joins the dead, life as well as death is philosophized upon. She goes back to her family and her twelfth birthday, and there and then bewails the blindness of men and women, and their insensitivity to the great human values lying in great wealth all about them...