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Mrs. Meeker had spent a small fortune on a search for him but had made no provision for him in her will if he should be found after her death, and had never mentioned his name to her lawyers.
In 1926 he was placed in charge of monitoring shops selling opium, noting regular irregularities and a thriving illegal trade in the controlled substance ; believing opium to be essentially harmless, there is evidence indicating that Gardner probably took many bribes in this position, earning himself a small fortune.
Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary ( President Kennedy was the other ; he donated all his paychecks to charity ).
Brahms had amassed a small fortune in the second half of his career, around 1860, when his works sold widely.
During the fifth day Fiammetta, whose name means small flame, sets the theme of tales where lovers pass through disasters before having their love end in good fortune.
His mother, Bertha, left a small farm near Centralia, Illinois, to make a fortune in Chicago as a singer.
They contain a fortune ; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion.
However, shortly before her death she secretly passes a small fortune into Overton's keeping, with the agreement that once Ernest is twenty-eight, he can receive it.
His father, Vasily Dorofeyevich Lomonosov, was a prosperous peasant fisherman turned ship owner, who amassed a small fortune transporting goods from Arkhangelsk to Pustozyorsk, Solovki, Kola, and Lapland.
He worked hard on little but to increase his personal fortune, which in 1984 was estimated to amount to US $ 5 billion, most of it in Swiss banks ( however, a comparatively small $ 3. 4 million has been found after his ousting ).
Even though he was protective and caring he was easy to offend, and his retributions ranged from small pranks like a stout box on the ears to a more sociopathical punishment like killing off the livestock or ruining of the farm's fortune.
Turner left a small fortune which he hoped would be used to support what he called " decayed artists ".
A confident and knowledgeable Joseph Lannin invested his savings in the commodities market, making a small fortune.
It is at Hunstanton Hall ( fictionalised as Anchorstone Hall ) that Eustace enters the privileged world of the aristocracy and eventually inherits a small fortune.
He sold the bonds on a profit to make a small fortune in the worst economic climate in American history.
For example, Dupin explains how an eight-year old boy made a small fortune from his friends at a game called " Odds and Evens.
The vests cost $ 800 USD each in 1914, a small fortune at the time.
Holberg was both unmarried and childless, but in the end of his life had a small fortune.
He earned a small fortune by charging for his autograph and picture, although he often gave his money away to the homeless and beggars.
He came under the lash of Samuel Butler, who, making allowance for some satiric exaggeration, has given in the character of Sidrophel a probably not very incorrect picture of the man ; and, having by this time amassed a tolerable fortune, he bought a small estate at Hersham in Surrey, to which he retired, and where he diverted the exercise of his peculiar talents to the practice of medicine.
His father died in 1657, leaving him a small fortune, and thenceforward he devoted himself to letters.
Goodman convinced Warwick that the extra small " e " would add a vibration needed to balance her last name and bring her even more good fortune in her marriage and her professional life.
" During Athina's childhood and adolescence, all expenditures made on her behalf by her father ( using money from the Onassis inheritance ) had to be approved by the Board in advance ( which led her father to threaten constantly to move back to Paris, France with the family, where income taxes would cost the estate a " small fortune a year ", as Roussel put it ).
The result had cost Reuchlin years of trouble and no small part of his modest fortune, but it was worth the sacrifice.

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On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.
There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.
The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.
She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.
The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.
Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.
The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.
Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.
The nude was small and black-haired and elfin, and was called `` Eloise ''.

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