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Her and wealth
Her frequent visits to the estate also allowed her to contrast the wealth in which the local landowner lived with the lives of the often much poorer people on the estate, and different lives lived in parallel would reappear in many of her works.
Her father grew angry as he wanted her to marry a person of power and wealth, not a healer.
Her family's wealth was a considerable factor in the match: she was eighteen at the time of the wedding, and Bernard-François fifty.
Her father, the Duke of Teck, had no inheritance or wealth, and carried the lower royal style of Serene Highness because his parents ' marriage was morganatic.
Her spirit of fortune made her a diety of greedy subjects who prayed to her for fortune and wealth and luck.
Her aunt told her to go to Constantinople to " ask for justice from the Emperor ", that she would receive her fair share of her father's wealth.
Her wealth enabled her to give financial support to struggling writers, including Joyce and Edith Sitwell.
Her father had a flourishing tea and grocery store and had accumulated considerable wealth.
Her clients were said to have been both men and women of wealth, and her career was financially lucrative.
Her only family were three semi-siblings brought up with endless wealth, now penniless and scrambling to earn a living, plus her 47-year-old cousin A.
Her combined estates in 1102-1110 nearly exceeded the wealth of the King of France at that time.
Her constant snobbery, boasting about wealth and connections she doesn't have, whilst repeatedly talking about her son Sheridan, all make Hyacinth disliked by almost everyone around her, including brother-in-law Onslow.
Her various epithets thus show a complex of mutually interrelated functions that in the view of G. Dumezil and V. Basanoff can be traced back to the Indoeuropean trifunctional ideology: as Regina and Moneta she is a sovereign deity, as Sespeis, Curitis ( spear holder ) and Moneta ( again ) she is an armed protectress, as Mater and Curitis ( again ) she is a goddess of the fertility and wealth of the community in her association with the curiae.
Her business enterprise proved immensely successful and later in life, she used her enormous wealth to support charitable institutions in the fields of education, art and health.
Her first two husbands used her great wealth to their advantage, especially the extremely abusive Count Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow, with whom she had her only child, a son named Lance.
Her husband, pointing out that she could have wished for immense wealth or food to last them a lifetime, becomes angry with her for making such a stupid wish and, not thinking, wishes the sausage were stuck on her nose.
Her wealth, as of 2011, was listed as US $ 1. 2 billion.
Her father was from a noble Polish family which had lost its wealth and property to the Russians, so he worked as a civil servant.
Her wealth is presented through her pearls and perfume and she takes care of her appearance, having smooth skin with fine lines, despite her age.
Her 2008 followup, Who Owns Canada Now: Old Money, New Money and The Future of Canadian Business showed that whilst much of the wealth covered in her earlier book had been inherited, 55 of the 75 wealthy families or individuals profiled were self-made.
Her proposition was that by cutting taxes and government benefits, the wealthy had benefited primarily at the cost of the less advantaged, including the middle class, whose real wages and wealth had barely grown during that period of time.
Her net wealth as mentioned in The One Hundred and One Dalmatians is £ 6 million.
Her book brought to light the moral injustices enacted upon the Native Americans as it chronicled the ruthlessness of white settlers in their greed for land, wealth, and power.
Her husband André slowly killed her by poisoning her drinks as she lay stricken in bed, in order to inherit her wealth and marry her beautiful younger sister for her dowry.

Her and persona
Her screen persona as " a cold, remote erotic object which dreams are made on " reached a peak, according to the critic Philip French, in her second Buñuel film Tristana ( 1970 ).
Her image was much satirized and taken up as camp, and today, the " Carmen Miranda " persona is popular among drag performers.
Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized.
Bernard Dick summed up Holliday's acting: " Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability ... Her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts.
Her Diana Fox persona climbs up the rank of Albion's Shadow Captains as Britannia and develops a rivalry with Lionheart.
Her Weakest Link persona has been likened to that of Judge Judy .< ref >
Her larger-than-life persona and scathing but dead-on commentary on society and celebrity, as well as her habit of treating celebrities like ordinary people ( on her TV shows ) and ordinary people like celebrities ( in her stage shows ) have become signatures.
Her larger-than-life persona has resulted in characters named Thaïs appearing in several literary works, the most famous of which are listed below.
Her reprised role as the over-the-top glamour vixen was so successful that the company created numerous sequels around her persona.
Her brassy persona was used to great effect in
Her frailty and inability to handle the laundry leads readers to notice a sharp contrast between her and the tough persona of Brave Orchid.
Her bubbly and vivacious persona led to comparisons with Clara Bow, but White's career was slow to progress.
Her attention eventually shifts from Shaw to her own media persona as her fighter's number of wins continues to climb.
Her fierce persona is attributed partly to her peasant background, and partly to her virginity, which provides ( according to Balzac ) " une force diabolique ou la magie noire de la volonté " (" diabolical strength, or the black magic of the Will ").
Her " Mary " personality is a timid, quiet, pacifist ; her " Typhoid " personality is adventurous, lustful, and violent ; and her " Bloody Mary " persona is brutal, sadistic, and misandrous.
Her mod persona opened many doors ( and perhaps started a sexual revolution ) in country music, but Riley herself was not comfortable with her image, and she eventually abandoned it for a more conservative wardrobe.
Her act was full of malapropisms and catchphrases that had become part of her public persona, her most famous of which was " She knows, y ' know!
Rich Juzwiak of Stylus Magazine gave the album an A rating, stating " Her adventurous and, yes, massive, persona is allowed to wander wherever it wants on The Cookbook, be it avant or common.
Perry has written a book in the character's persona titled Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries On Love And Life, which was published April 11, 2006.
Her close-cropped hair and somewhat boyish persona ( she was several times cast as a woman mistaken for a young man ) became fashionable during the era.

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