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European monarchs, Stuart died almost penniless...
...tale of triumph. Yet, most curiously, the odor of death hangs over the story of Jay Gould. It is not so much, perhaps, that consumption took its gradual toll of his energies and powers. Nor is it that his chief business intimates died penniless, or insane, or by violence. Gould had the Midas-touch. He transmuted the most unlikely stuff into gold. But in the transmuting he took from it all life and beauty, left it deflowered and pitiful. Said pleasure-loving Jim Fisk: "Gould lets everyone carry out his own corpse." Said pious, ruthless Daniel Drew: "His touch...
...Learned with ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Unwilling to aid Widow Hinchliffe directly, Viscount Inchcape placed ?10,000 ($48,700) at the disposal and "absolute discretion" of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, last week, with the request he administer it in such manner as to alleviate "any complaint by other sufferers from the disaster...
...week for as long as 13 weeks. The 14th week, a doctor says that he can never return to work. He then is paid $52.50 a month for 40 months, when his policy is used up. If he dies after the 40th month, Mrs. Hazay will be penniless. . . . Others who announced six months profits, last week, were: Fleischmann Co. ("I was bilious"): $9,529,055. as against $9,315,352. Simmons Co. (Bedmakers for David Binney Putnam): $2,501,438 as against $2,242,482. Coca Cola International Corp. (The heat, the humidity): $1,264,533 as against...
...promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries to get the better of her other lovers. Eva who inherits her Russian mother's charming promiscuity was accustomed to arrive penniless at some unfortunate town, take up her abode at the workhouse, but carouse nightly at cafe and dance hall. Eva once traveled from Ireland with nine Catholic priests; all went to the same London hotel; all went to the cinema; all held hands. "Nine Catholic priests, and you in the middle...