Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thowing precedent off the lot, Korda begins his version of Rembrandt with the painter at the peak of popularity and wealth and stops the cameras while the hero still lives and chuckles. The first axe to fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels...
...history of the gift is a complicated one. When Mr. Nieman died in October, 1935, he divided his wealth evenly between his widow and a niece. His total fortune was estimated at $10,000,000, a sum which is subject to the Federal inheritance tax. Since liquidation of this property involves the sale of a large block of shares of the Milwaukee Journal, a transaction of uncertain magnitude, the amount of Mrs. Nieman's share is still not definitely known, but is probably around $5,000,000. Federal taxes will deduct about 50%, leaving $2,500,000 as an estimated...
...introduction to cach of the plays and poems the editor has set down in a little space a great wealth of condensed information on sources, problems of character and interpretation, and facts about the text. The twelve generations of Harvard men who sat at his feet in old "English 2" will recognize in delight many of the master's rapier thrusts...
...recalling his great days, making the whole company work on his memoirs. Talking as much as Samuel Johnson, the imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth he would leave them. He bluffed them, too, for he had very little to leave. But his mimic war for moral mastery of the island became deadly serious. Being made ridiculous so often weakened Sir Hudson Lowe's already feeble intelligence. When Napoleon was dying of cancer, vomiting consistently...
...draw up a constitution that heavily restricted the franchise. The only variance in the analogy as applied to Talleyrand is that he had no such deceitful principles as "equality" or "fraternity". He was a gentleman opportunist, whose skill and diplomacy not only proved a lucrative source for his own wealth, but profoundly benefited France herself...