Once the railroad arrived, in the mid-nineteenth century, large numbers of Britain's ballooning middle class followed — "lesser men with less fortunes," suddenly free to "tumble down the Alps in living avalanches," in the sniffy words of Lord Normanby, the future British Ambassador to France.
Once the railroad arrived, in the mid-nineteenth century, large numbers of Britain's ballooning middle class followed—"lesser men with less fortunes," suddenly free to "tumble down the Alps in living avalanches," in the sniffy words of Lord Normanby, the future British Ambassador to France.
After moving to Manhattan, he married into a prominent New York family (the Cushings), began his career as a corporate lawyer (today, he is a partner at the firm of Covington & Burling), and devoted himself to preserving urban landmarks and sharing his good fortune with those less fortunate than he.
At the end of it those of less ample fortunes will feel their Schadenfreude richly indulged".The Big Rich" charts the story of Haroldson "H.L".
Numerous initiatives have failed to yield profit, much less a fortune, and many in the business community are walking away from the whole idea, he said.
Peterson had less good fortune in the Hawaiian arena, his best result being seventh place at the 1974 World Cup, although he received rave reviews for his high-tech, high-speed carving at Sunset Beach.
"There's a lot more freedom," Beaumont observed of the turnaround in her fortunes less than a fortnight since reaching her maiden international half-century; unstoppable since.
As a first step in making our 400 fortunes less absurd-looking, let's resort to the artifice of a ratio scale.
Given all the heat he's taken of late, if Romney could retroactively invest he might plant less of his fortune under other countries' flags.
The prospect that the Web is the world's biggest garage sale, still unregulated, may make it more, not less, attractive to fortune hunters who think that unrecognized treasures are to be found there, below the experts' radar screen, uncontrolled.
In the end it's possible to see whoever prevails in the presidential election not as the less principled, more fortune-kissed candidate but as the one whose message had the most appeal and whose prescriptions voters felt like putting their chips on, at least at this particular juncture.
