Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many would-be buyers out of the housing market. Now it is having the reverse effect: rationally or not, people who have any thought of buying a house figure they had better move immediately before the price of single-family homes climbs beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest. Says Atlanta Businessman Rod Kinder, 51, who paid $89,500 for a New England type house in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody last month: "We decided to buy now before it got out of the realm of reality altogether. It was now or never...
JOHN CORRY'S Golden Clan, the family chronicle of one of America's wealthiest Irish dynasties, testifies eloquently to the pot's victory. Corry's book is an anecdotal biography of the Murray and McDonnell families, a legendary New York clan that once boasted enough money to buy an army and enough children to make the purchase unnecessary. Like any success story, the book starts with the meteoric rise of the family's patriarch, Thomas E. Murray, a founder of Con Ed, from the depths of shanty Irish poverty to the top of the corporate utility world, a $9 million...
...ethereal little devils were responsible. When things went bump in the night, it was far better to suspect the hobgoblins than creatures more substantial and threatening. Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous life beyond the reach of the wealthiest voluptuaries. The highest compliment Edmund Spenser could pay Elizabeth I was to call her the Faerie Queene. The Little People could do everything that the big people could...
...greedy animal gulps it down, his body heat melts the ice and the spring expands, piercing his stomach. It may seem expedient now to offer statehood to Puerto Rico rather than be discredited internationally as colonialists; to many Puerto Ricans it seems equally comfortable to be swallowed by the wealthiest best on earth. Ford could go down in history as the one who sniffed at the bait...
There was also the apparent contradiction that existed between the political views and positions of the public, Socialist Thomas and the private Thomas, a member, however reluctant, of the upper class. Thomas's wife Violet (nee Stewart) was the daughter of one of New York's wealthiest and most illustrious families, and the bulk of the Thomas family income was derived from her sizeable inheritance. Thomas sent his children to private schools, owned a luxurious country house, employed several servants, and enthusiastically supported his wife's hobby of raising cocker spaniels. A staunch, and early, opponent of racial discrimination...