Why should his log be put to useTo warm the idle rich?
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There are no idle rich or landed aristocracy to draw off the wealth of the nation.
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MARGARET V. SIEBEL Washington To the Editor: A generation ago, only the very wealthy idle rich could take cruises.
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Where Neo Yokio asks viewers to laugh at the idle rich, Pink Christmas has carte blanche to violently and irrevocably take them down.
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The villa is a 20-minute drive north of Seminyak, Bali's most fashionable neighborhood, thronged with ex-models and the idle rich in high season.
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As with the novel, there's an underlying commentary about the idle rich and their brand of debauchery, barely obscured by the polished marble and fine linen.
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But, to me, this also reads like an indictment of the party lifestyle of the idle rich, be they Gatsby characters or tsars of the Russian empire.
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Our latest Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) isn't merely of the idle rich, he's a bona fide warrior, hunting down zombies that hide at card parties and society dinners.
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This bill does little or nothing for the middle class, and even among the affluent it's biased against those who work hard in favor of the idle rich.
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"A Bigger Splash" is based on Jacques Deray's 1969 film "La Piscine" ("The Swimming Pool"), one of those idle-rich soaps in which trouble pulls up in a Maserati.
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And with the growth in popularity for immersive entertainment in our own world, it's easy to see why just dropping into a different era might be worth the price of admission to the idle rich.
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But where Big Little Lies tackled the not-so-idle rich of Monterey, California, Big Little Lies is all Southern gothic, set in a tiny Missouri town with a legacy of trauma and a seeming serial killer haunting its present.
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I thought that, at least, an event that is as openly geared towards the pretensions and predilections of the idle rich would indulge in some form of pretension that could fake sophistication, setting all this goofy horse trotting to Debussy or something.
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Many thought that the federal income tax should follow the example of the income tax of the United Kingdom, which taxed labor income produced by the (real or metaphorical) sweat of the brow less heavily than the investment income of the coupon-clipping idle rich.
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"We are a nation founded on the overthrow of kings and the idle rich, so the hustle is deeply baked into mainstream notions of what it means to be American," said Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington who is a New York Times opinion contributor.
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Set between 1912 and 1926, the show charts how the turbulence of the early 20th century — the wars, economic booms and busts, and various progressive social causes — eroded England's old order, closing the curtain on an era when only the idle rich could dictate how their country was run.
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The film's free-floating framing helps the director present this world of unbridled materialism without imposing any particular perspective on the follies of the idle rich, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that — aside from a shot of competitors praying toward Mecca — we are given no insights into these men's lives beyond their love of falconry.
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Resselyer-Brown, like a chapter in his Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich.
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They involved displays of sumptuosity and the flaunting of rare and precious skills that only the idle rich could cultivate.
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Upon its release, some theaters showed this short with The Idle Rich; some other theaters showed it with a re-release of Chaplin's Carmen.
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The wealthy go to the low-class neighbourhoods to have illicit affairs, and the criminals come to the wealthy neighbourhoods in the employ of the criminal idle rich.
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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich being advertised in an American newspaper. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a collection of humorous interwoven vignettes by Stephen Leacock, published in 1914. It exists as a companion work to his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), due to the similarity of composition, and their subject matter. Arcadian Adventures follows the members of the 'Mausoleum Club' on Plutoria Avenue, in an unnamed American city (usually referred to as Plutoria, after its main street), and pokes fun at their obsessive individualism and materialism.
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Boston Herald. Archived from the original on October 29, 2016. former member of the Providence early hardcore punk band Idle Rich. The band's return was accompanied by the vinyl reissue, on Sacramento-based label Ss Records, of their 1983 debut album, Soma Holiday.
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Embracing Rousseau's dictates in many ways, it narrates the story of the rich, noble but spoiled Tommy Merton and his poor but virtuous friend Harry Sandford. Through trials and stories, Harry and the boys' tutor teach Tommy the importance of labor and the evils of the idle rich.
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Various groups make speeches in Hyde Park, including a communist group called "Heralds of the Red Dawn". One of them, a bearded man, denounces the Idle Rich to a crowd. Bingo Little's uncle, recently titled Lord Bittlesham, approaches Bertie. He owns Ocean Breeze, a horse on which Bertie has bet money for the Goodwood Cup.
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"As Fitzgerald wrote it, The Great Gatsby is a good deal more than an ill-fated love story about the cruelties of the idle rich...The movie can't see this through all its giant closeups of pretty knees and dancing feet. It's frivolous without being much fun."Canby, Vincent (1974). "A Lavish Gatsby Loses Book's Spirit".
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So English aristocracy, the idle rich, the lad sent down from Oxford, the young man with great expectations and little ability, the chappie whose only survival tool is a smart gentleman's gentleman called Jeeves – all this is turned into rich material for humour of a local kind.' There has been criticism of the book's ending which is compared to a Bollywood movie.
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One of the stories from Stephen Leacock's bestselling 1914 book Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich features a character that caricatures the religious leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.Wagner, Ralph D.Yahi-Bahi Society of Mrs. Resselyer-Brown, The. Accessed on: 30-07-2011 Philip K. Dick's science-fiction novel Eye in the Sky features a parallel world theocracy dominated by a church of the "Second Bab".
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As a young woman, Anna V. Mitchell was known as an "accomplished pianist" and "active in settlement work in New York and London."Junius B. Wood, "Idle Rich of Former Days Have Done Their Share in Winning War" Oregon Daily Journal (May 11, 1919): 4.via Newspapers.com During World War I Anna Mitchell went to France and Belgium with the American Red Cross.
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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Leacock, Stephen. 'Afterword, by Gerald Lynch'. New Canadian Library, 2010. Print. As Leacock thought humour to be 'the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof', Acardian Adventures tends to steer slightly away from this form of 'kindliness', and, thus, ranks as one of his most scathing works, as well as arguably one of his funniest.
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R.A. Roberts put on The Passing of the Idle Rich in 1913. Taken from a book by Frederick Townsend Martin, with a screenplay by Margaret Townsend, the theatrical presentation debuted at the Garden Theatre on April 28. Prentice was in the cast together with Beverley Sitgreaves, Marie Burke, Victoria Montgomery, and Escamillo Fernandez.F.T. Martin to be Staged Soon, The New York Times, April 14, 1913, pg. 9.
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Kenneth Clark senior worked briefly as a director of the firm and retired in his mid-twenties as a member of the "idle rich", as Clark junior later put it: although "many people were richer, there can have been few who were idler".Clark (1974), p. 1Stourton, p. 7 The Clarks maintained country homes at Sudbourne Hall, Suffolk, and at Ardnamurchan, Argyll, and wintered on the French Riviera.
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A character intended to be Lambert whose face is never seen appears in episode 7 of season 6 of the Adult Swim animated TV series The Venture Bros., "A Party for Tarzan", in which Dr. Venture throws a lunar eclipse party in order to cultivate Lambert and, through him, make connections with the idle rich. Lambert appears late to attend the party, but the doors are locked and he can't get in.
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However, his Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914) is a darker collection that satirizes city life. Collections of sketches continued to follow almost annually at times, with a mixture of whimsy, parody, nonsense, and satire that was never bitter. Leacock was enormously popular not only in Canada but in the United States and Britain. In later life, Leacock wrote on the art of humour writing and also published biographies of Twain and Dickens.
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The sharecroppers begin unpacking extravagant gifts to themselves from their new accounts. Sharon and Finian celebrate the end of class-distinction that comes with wealth ("When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich"). Shears and Robust show up wondering when the gold will be discovered that will pay for the credit. Woody and Finian explain that there is no need to dig the gold up, since the news has led to massive investment in their tobacco label.
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As she was leaving Portugal and returning to Spain, she was arrested and held in custody overnight. She was released without charge at the request of the Italian embassy. In 1976, she infamously checked out of a hotel in Lisbon, where she had stayed for several weeks, without paying the bill, claiming simply that as the Duchess of Braganza she was not obligated to pay for her lodging. Maria Pia mixed frequently with the jet set idle rich.
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The New York Times said the film "has a clinical interest as an example of the confused resentment against the idle rich which Hollywood has been displaying lately" in which the opening scenes "offer considerable promise for a bright-faced comedy of society foibles" but which went downhill once Walter Connolly's character died. The Los Angeles Times called it "George Raft's best picture" with an "inventive scenario" and "unexpected twists". After making the film, Tay Garnett went on an around the world cruise.
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Elmer (Buster Keaton), a member of the idle rich, is smitten by working girl Mary (Sally Eilers), who will have nothing to do with him. When Elmer's chauffeur gets caught up in an army recruitment drive and quits, Elmer goes to an employment agency to find a new driver and accidentally enlists in the army. Elmer learns that Mary is on the base to entertain the troops and learns that his drill sergeant, Brophy (Edward Brophy), is also interested in Mary.
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As described in a film magazine, Angela Deming (Mason), a daughter of wealth who seeks to postpone love indefinitely, is sought in marriage by Joseph Whitely (Stanley), capitalist, Eliot Slade (Carewe), idle rich, and William Hanley (Jones), just a boy. She keeps them all at bay until she accidentally learns that her father is facing bankruptcy. Without his knowledge she marries Whitely at once, realizing after the ceremony that she loves him. Hanley, believing himself justified, tells Whitely that she married him for his money.
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Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories created by British author P. G. Wodehouse. An amiable English gentleman and one of the "idle rich", Bertie appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose intelligence manages to save Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations. Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have been described as "one of the great comic double-acts of all time". Bertie is the narrator and central figure of most of the Jeeves short stories and novels.
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A writer for the Boston Globe sums up Isabel and her marriage by saying: > ...these Andersons? They were idle rich, born to money and accustomed to > privilege -- but they were interesting people who left us something...Isabel > did what rich young women did back then -- she "came out," summered in > Newport, "springed" in New Hampshire, wintered in Boston, partied aplenty. > In 1896, the debutante went to Europe, a young attractive woman with a > considerable inherited fortune. She met Larz; he was smitten; they were > married.
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The comedy manga Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori has Tamaki Suou, leader of the club at the academy for the idle rich, refer to Haruhi Fujioka, the newcomer girl dressed as a boy as "Oshin", someone "sold to a mean master who'd overwork you and leave you crying into your pillow night after night." He also asks if Haruhi subsisted "on rice and horseradish." Haruhi is a poor but diligent student attending on scholarship.Hatori Bisco, "Ouran High School Host Club", vol.
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Around the turn of the 20th century, much of sailing was professionals paid by interested idle rich. Today, sailing, especially dinghy sailing, is an example of a sport which is still largely populated by amateurs. For example, in the recent Team Racing Worlds, and the American Team Racing Nationals, most of the sailors competing in the event were amateurs. While many competitive sailors are employed in businesses related to sailing (including sailmaking, naval architecture, boatbuilding and coaching), most are not compensated for their own competitions.
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The Idle Rich is a 1929 American Pre-Code early sound comedy film produced and released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and directed by William C. deMille. It is based on the Broadway play White Collars by Edith Ellis, which had played at the Egan Theater in Los Angeles in 1924 before moving to the Cort Theatre in New York. The film is extant, and was released DVD in 2012 from WarnerArchive Collection. This film was remade in 1938 as Rich Man, Poor Girl with Robert Young and Ruth Hussey.
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Jeeves and Bertie visit Deverill Hall, where Jeeves's Uncle Charlie is employed as butler, in The Mating Season. While away on his vacation in Jeeves in the Offing, Jeeves is persuaded by a friend to judge a seaside bathing belle contest.Wodehouse (2008) [1960], Jeeves in the Offing, chapter 11, pp. 111–112. In the novel Ring for Jeeves, which is set after World War II, Jeeves temporarily works as Lord Rowcester's butler while Bertie is sent to a school where the idle rich learn to fend for themselves.
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By the early 20th century, the satirical tradition was well developed in English Canada as exemplified in the writing of Stephen Leacock. In Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), Leacock, already known for his satirical wit, used tragic irony and astute insight in examining day-to-day, small-town life. The book remains a classic of Canadian literature, and was followed by Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich in 1914. An annual Canadian literary award, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, is named in his memory.
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He is featured in The Big Money by John Dos Passos, and mentioned in Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. One of Veblen's Ph.D. students was George W. Stocking, Sr., a pioneer in the emerging field of industrial organization economics. Another was Canadian academic and author Stephen Leacock, who went on to become the head of Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University. The influence of Theory of the Leisure Class can be seen in Leacock's 1914 satire, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich.
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We can do a lot better. > Changing the world for the better will be a hard struggle so we should make > sure that we look for the best possible society to live in. We look forward > to a world without borders, where the great majority of people have as much > right to freely move about as the idle rich do today. A worldwide federation > of free peoples – classless and stateless – where we produce to satisfy > needs and all have control over our destinies – that's a goal worth > struggling for.
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The film focuses on two young people in love, Chad Bixby (Wagner) and Sarah "Salome" Davis (Wood), who are forced apart and marry others, then brought together again by chance. The film also examines, in a melodramatic style, the experience of starting off "dirt poor" and ending up "idle rich", and concludes that after the changes in lifestyle, the personalities remain the same. Wagner's character is loosely based on the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Pearl Bailey plays a down-on-her-luck blues singer who mothers Wagner's character, while guiding his career.
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She gives Keith Guy's money, which he spends on ridiculous clothes and accessories. Keith, a pornography aficionado (and addict) is kept keen by regular "home videos" created by Nicola, starring herself. To Sam, Nicola pretends to tell the whole truth, but in fact manipulates him as well, in a way that is apparent to the reader only when Sam himself realises – at the end of the story. Guy is an idle, rich dreamer whose relationship with his "frightening wife" is sexless after the birth of their uncontrollable son, Marmaduke, who seems to have a violent Oedipal complex.
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Jacobson added that the episode "jabs the idle rich nicely", and he enjoyed the golf scenes with Homer. Jennifer Malkowski of DVD Verdict considered the best part of the episode to be Mr. Burns's demand for his tires to be revulcanized at the gas station. She concluded her review by giving the episode a grade of B. The authors of the book Homer Simpson Goes to Washington, Joseph Foy and Stanley Schultz, wrote that in the episode, "the tension of trying to demonstrate a family's achievement of the American Dream is satirically and expertly played out by Marge Simpson".
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As described in a film magazine, Virginia Griswold (Ferguson), whose family is in financial straits, resolves to remedy the situation by finding the source of widely distributed counterfeit bills, as a large reward is offered for the capture of the maker of the fake bills. A clue takes her to Newport where she poses as one of the idle rich and falls in love with Stuart Kent (Powell), a man of means, who returns her affection. Vincent Cortez (Gerard), about whom little is known, also becomes enamored of Virginia and she accepts his affections, much to the consternation of Stuart. She offers no acceptable explanation to Stuart for this.
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As described in a film magazine, Gerry Simpson (Bushman) meets newspaper reporter Virginia Blake (Bayne) and, after learning that she has no use for the idle rich, decides to become a reporter and make Virginia believe he is poor in order to win her. Both are very happy until Virginia comes to believe that Gerry is responsible for a series of robberies that have occurred at fashionable functions. She goes to his apartment but is interrupted by Gerry's valet. Gerry arrives home in time to save Virginia from the wrath of the crooked valet and after the thief is brought to justice, Virginia, convinced of Gerry's innocence, promises to marry him.
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Driberg later defended his association with an inconsequential society column by arguing that his approach was satirical, and that he deliberately exaggerated the doings of the idle rich as a way of enraging working-class opinion and helping the Communist Party.Driberg, p. 102 Driberg used the column to introduce readers to up-and- coming socialites and literary figures, Acton, Betjeman, Nancy Mitford and Peter Quennell among them. Sometimes he introduced more serious causes: capital punishment, modern architecture, the works of D. H. Lawrence and Jacob Epstein, and the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, which had been denounced in the Express editorial columns as "infamous".
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Townsfolk did not include any idle rich or privileged gentry. Scotch-Irish families often functioned, willingly or not, as isolated picket lines when Native American war parties were on the move, as depicted in Last of the Mohicans. Certainly, Pelham residents were on the ramparts 160 miles (256 km) west at the siege of Fort William Henry and in other campaigns, just as they would later march 80 miles (128 km) to Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill whenever an alarm was sounded. So when Landlord Conkey served up the rum, brandy, and wine from his cellar, those raising a tankard were often hard and wary veterans.
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Mitchell Hurwitz, Arnett and fellow cast member David Cross had previously worked together on Fox's Arrested Development. Running Wilde had many stylistic similarities to Arrested Development, including frequent cutaway gags and a narrator (Emmy's daughter Puddle, played by Stefania LaVie Owen) who comments on the character's motivations. Moreover, the series appears to exist in the same universe as Arrested Development, as the fictional Bluth Company from Arrested Development is responsible for the design of the nightclub in the penultimate episode "The Pre-nup". The series provided the first U.S. network TV role for British actor-comedian Peter Serafinowicz, who plays Wilde's idle-rich friend and neighbor Fa-ad Shaoulin.
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Victoria Montgomery was a theatrical performer on Broadway and off Broadway in the early 20th century. The Passing of the Idle Rich was produced by the Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan,New York City Broadway Guide - Winter Garden Theater in April 1913. The play, a work by Frederic Townsend Martin, showed scenes from a private car, the RMS Olympic, a millionaire's residence on Fifth Avenue, and a Mexican mine with an operative cage. R.A. Roberts staged the entertainment which included Montgomery, Beverley Sitgreaves, and Beatrice Prentice, in its cast.F.T, Martin to be Staged Soon, New York Times, April 14, 1913, pg. 9.
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Boulestin was an Anglophile from an early age, even in culinary matters. He attempted to convince his family of the virtues of mint sauce with mutton, bought mince pies and marmalade in Paris, and took Colette to afternoon tea. He moved to London in 1906, and thereafter made his home and career there, though he never considered taking British citizenship (Elizabeth David wrote that he considered it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country). At first, in the words of the biographer Brigid Allen, he immersed himself "in the music-halls and theatres, and the follies and ostentatious luxury of the idle rich".
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Chauncey Z. Bennett UKC was founded on February 10, 1898, by Chauncey Z. Bennett, who was motivated by dissatisfaction with the other dog registries, which were, he felt, geared too much for the conformation-only show dog or the wealthy hobby man, what Bennett called "the big city idle rich".UKC Centennial Book, The First 100 Years, copyright 1997, UKC Bennett conceived and promoted the concept of the "Total Dog", that is, a dog that performs as well as it looks; in which intelligence and working ability were as important as conformation to the written breed standard. Bennett found a niche among the owners of working dogs, such as herding and hunting dogs.
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Darwin found many ideas in the quality magazines. Wallace argued that group co-operation increased fitness for survival. Darwin's cousin Francis Galton wrote Hereditary Talent and Character for Macmillan's Magazine emphasising the inheritance of traits, and their extension to races and classes, and calling for better breeding to ensure that the "nobler varieties of mankind" prevailed, with civilisation being saved from "intellectual anarchy" by scientific "master minds" rising to power. These views were shared by Darwin's old friend W. R. Greg whose Fraser's Magazine article about natural selection in society raised fears of the "unfit" and of the prudent middle classes being out-bred by the idle rich and the feckless poor.
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Meanwhile, Adam and Nina are part of a young and decadent crowd, whose lives are dedicated to wild parties, alcohol, cocaine, and the latest gossip reported by columnist Simon Balcairn, known to his readers as Mr Chatterbox. Among them are eccentric Agatha Runcible, whose wild ways eventually lead her to being committed in a mental institution; Miles Maitland, who is forced to flee the country to avoid prosecution for his homosexuality; Sneath, a paparazzo who chronicles the wicked ways of the young and reckless; and Ginger Littlejohn, Nina's former beau, who ingratiates himself back into her life, much to Adam's dismay. The pastimes of the young, idle rich are disrupted with the onset of a new world war, which eventually overtakes their lives in often devastating ways.
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Written by World War I veteran, Laurence Stallings, the film is about an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes a friend of two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. The film has been praised for its realistic depiction of warfare, and it heavily influenced a great many subsequent war films, especially All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). The Big Parade is regarded as one of the greatest films made about World War I, and in 1992 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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At the time of the election U.S. President Harrison, Martin said: > It matters not one iota what political party is in power or what President > holds the reins of office. We are not politicians or public thinkers; we are > the rich; we own America; we got it, God knows how, but we intend to keep it > if we can by throwing all the tremendous weight of our support, our > influence, our money, our political connections, our purchased Senators, our > hungry Congressmen, our public-speaking demagogues into the scale against > any legislature, any political platform, any presidential campaign that > threatens the integrity of our estate. Agar, Herbert, _The People's Choice_ > , Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933, p. 248 In 1911, he wrote The Passing of the Idle Rich.
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The album's cover features a withered starving African child's hand being held and dwarfed by a white man's hand, a picture that had won the World Press Photo award in 1980, taken in Karamoja district in Uganda by Mike Wells. The band's music had evolved considerably in a short time, moving away from hardcore formulae toward a more innovative jazz-informed style, featuring musicianship and dynamics far beyond other bands in the genre (thus effectively removing the music from that genre). By now the group had become a de facto political force, pitting itself against rising elements of American social and political life such as the religious right, Ronald Reagan and the idle rich. The band continued touring all over the United States, as well as Europe and Australia, and gained a large underground following.
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Her insouciance was to make her indirectly responsible for James Stewart's only Oscar, Katharine Hepburn's development into a major film star, and, it is said, the popularity of "Tracy" as a girl's first name. Edgar Scott had been a classmate of future New York playwright Philip Barry while at Harvard, and the Scotts were lifelong friends of Barry and his wife, Ellen. The idle rich were a source of inspiration to Barry, who had also become interested in the then-new phenomenon of the tabloid newspaper. Tabloids, then as now notorious for gossip and scandal, were anathema to conservative, high-society families, and while on a visit to St. Paul, Minnesota, Barry had heard of a local criminal enterprise in which prominent wealthy families were being blackmailed with threats of exposing family scandals.
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When Rabindranath Tagore saw young Gopinath's performance in early thirties he wrote an appreciation on the dancer: "Mr Gopinath is a real artist and I am sure there are not many who could rightfully take their stand by his side either in India or abroad. He brought to my mind glimpses of the great past when dancing was one of the most treasured arts in India and not as today, a mere device of whetting up the jaded appetite of the idle rich. His presence in our midst was a great lesson and now that dancing is again coming into vogue amongst us, his style should give us a correct lead, for in want of it, we are yet groping in the dark." He was awarded the Veera Srumkhala from, Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma the King of Travancore.
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Whichever way it may have been, by the turn of the eighteenth century it was already England's most popular card game. It was considered a great pastime by the idle rich of that time, but it acquired a very bad reputation as a potentially vicious "tavern" gambling game during the nineteenth century. In the 1875 novel, The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, chapter 24 has an episode wherein a recurring character, with a bad reputation for paying his gambling losses with IOUs and never redeeming them with money, makes a point of winning back his IOUs, one night, by persuading his companions to play Loo with him both playing and dealing, during which he cheats repeatedly by hiding cards up his sleeve, which is possible because the entire deck is not dealt out but cards remain with the dealer.
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London's intention in writing The Sea-Wolf was "an attack on (Nietzsche's) super-man philosophy."Jack London, Letter to Mary Austin, Nov 5 1919, cited in No Mentor But Myself, Jack London, Dale Walker, Jeanne Reesman, Second Edition, 1999 Nietzsche and Schopenhauer are mentioned in the second sentence of the novel as the preferred reading of the friend Humphrey van Weyden visited before his shipwreck. The novel also contains references to Herbert Spencer in chapters 8, 10, Charles Darwin in chapters 5, 6, 10, 13, Omar Khayyam in chapters 11, 17, 26, Shakespeare in chapter 5, and John Milton in chapter 26. The plot has some initial similarities to Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling in that they each have an idle, rich young man rescued from the sea and shanghaied into becoming a working sailor; however, the two stories differ widely in plot and moral tone.
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The Golden Cangue illustrates the decadence of the idle rich. Set in Shanghai, the novelette unfolds the degeneration of the heroine, Qi Qiao, and her family. The golden cangue symbolizes the destructiveness of the protagonist. Ts’ao Ch’i-ch’iao the main protagonist is the daughter of a sesame oil shopkeeper, she is forced to marry family Chiang for wealth. Originally, Ts’ao Ch’i-ch’iao was to be a concubine, but Ts’ao Ch’i-ch’iao's husband, the Second Master a cripple, that is not entitled to a regular marriage with anyone from a decent family background, because of his disabilities. But as Ts’ao Ch’i-ch’iao becomes his legal wife, she is then bound to serve him faithfully. The other two Mistresses from a titled and respectable family, and all of Ts’ao Ch’i-ch’iao husband's family, even the servants look down on Ts’ao Ch’i-ch’iao because of her low social status. All of which represents the tragic heroine of humble origins who marries a cripple and suffers an unhappy and unfulfilled life.
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He was a tall, erect, distinguished- > looking man, who, with his white hair, blue eyes, ruddy complexion, white > mustache, and in his manner and dress, conveyed the impression that he might > have come from the English landed aristocracy. He was perfectly cordial, but > gave us clearly to understand that our rather similar views on such matters > as foreign policy and the administration in Washington were no basis for > familiarity. The New York Times wrote: > He did consider himself an aristocrat, and his imposing stature-- tall, with > a muscular body weighing over , his erect soldierly bearing, his reserved > manner and his distinguished appearance--made it easy for him to play that > role. But if he was one, he was an aristocrat, according to his friends, in > the best sense of the word, despising the idle rich and having no use for > parasites, dilettantes or mere pleasure-seekers, whose company, clubs and > amusements he avoided.
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Set in the United Kingdom and the United States in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves. When Fry and Laurie began the series, they were already a popular double act due to regular appearances on Channel 4's Saturday Live and their own show A Bit of Fry & Laurie (BBC, 1987–95). In the television documentary Fry and Laurie Reunited (2010), the actors, reminiscing about their involvement in the series, revealed that they were initially reluctant to play the parts of Jeeves and Wooster, but eventually decided to do so because the series was going to be made with or without them and they felt no one else would do the parts justice.
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In addition, Meng brings news that some of his colleagues are planning to rebel against their commanders and start a new revolution, one that will truly sweep away the distinctions between rich and poor. Yuan visits the family for the New Year celebration, during which Sheng returns from America and Ai-lan delivers a son. During the festivities, Mei- ling sees him carousing as Sheng often does and berates him sharply, saying that he has become as decadent as the idle rich before the revolution came. Not long after the holiday, the Merchant’s son comes to Yuan badly injured and bearing terrible news: robbers and peasants have banded together, tortured the Tiger, and looted the great town house that Wang Lung bought when he became rich. Yuan travels to Wang Lung’s earthen house, where he finds the Tiger slowly dying from his wounds. Mei-ling soon arrives, accompanied by Yuan’s foster mother, to make the old man as comfortable as possible in his final hours. Yuan and Mei-ling reconcile, share a kiss, and realize that they are free to follow ancient traditions or foreign customs as they see fit.
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