Word: plutocrat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived as the representative of the A. F. of L. stagehands' potent President George Browne (TIME, Aug. 21). Known and printed was Willie Bioff's record as a Chicago hoodlum, his rise as George Browne's bodyguard and mainstay. Now Willie Bioff hobnobs with a Hollywood plutocrat. His dealings with Producer Joe Schenck were the subject of a court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about a plot: "In the case of William Bioff, the producers...
...long thereafter (in 1923) he retired, set about meeting all the poets. Plutocrat Amy Lowell charmed him by providing her guests with bath towels to spread across their knees in defense against her 17 slavering sheepdogs. In Rapallo he found a note at his hotel from Ezra Pound: "The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn't prevent us from having a vermouth together...
...unable to stand the strain much longer!" wailed the haggard plutocrat. "I have had three cables from the United States one of which suggested a lettuce diet. I have had more than 1,000 letters from the United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Many noble women have written me saying that they are only sympathetic and interested in getting me to sleep and care nothing...
...what she calls "a good fairy" is aroused in Luisa Ginglebusher (Margaret Sullavan) by an astonishing sequence of events. On the day that she is released from a Budapest orphanage, a friendly waiter (Reginald Owen) promises to smuggle her into a ball. At the ball, she meets an amorous plutocrat (Frank Morgan) whose fluttery advances she stalls off only by saying she is married. When Herr Konrad promises to make her husband immediately and fantastically rich, Luisa realizes her golden opportunity. She seizes a telephone book, mumbles an incantation, shuts her eyes and places her finger on the name...
...this work is to be found the triple bread line: Rye. White. Whole Wheat. Two melancholy goats ask. "What do people do with their garbage nowadays?" Political note: An unmistakable plutocrat with cigar and limousine appears above the caption: "The manufacturer of shirts of various colors." A fleeing burglar carrying an undersized parcel of swag is hailed as an encouraging omen...