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  • Mathilde was the art director of the advertising firm where my mother worked; she was the daughter of a French fabric-importing magnate, younger than my mother and notoriously fussy, apt to throw tantrums if the car service or the catering wasn't up to par.†  (source)
  • George Armstrong, a shipping magnate, was said to have built the house in 1919 in response to being blackballed by the club.†  (source)
  • Otto Lunardi was the magnate who owned the Aurora and a vast fleet of more than forty other airships.†  (source)
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  • He had his friend with him, you know, the chocolate magnate.†  (source)
  • Recently the New York Times had reported the eerie Masonic ties of countless famous men-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Duke of Kent, Peter Sellers, Irving Berlin, Prince Philip, Louis Armstrong, as well as a pantheon of well-known modern-day industrialists and banking magnates.†  (source)
  • I wondered what Rachel had told her father—a fabulously wealthy real estate magnate—to convince him she needed to borrow a helicopter.†  (source)
  • The real, regular smuggling trade was run by such magnates as Kon and Heller; it was an easier operation, and quite safe.†  (source)
  • When Derwent, who is rumored to have substantial Las Vegas holdings, was asked if his purchase and refurbishing of the Overlook signaled the opening gun in a battle to legalize casino-style gambling in Colorado, the aircraft, movie, munitions, and shipping magnate denied it ...with a smile.†  (source)
  • Maybe they got rich uncles—bank directors or railroad magnates or something.†  (source)
  • Troubled by the general moral demise of the East—manifest, particularly, in the Lindbergh kidnapping—the well-known home appliance magnate and his high-born Bostonian wife had brought their three sons, a maid, a cook, a butler, and a pair of private tutors to San Piedro's secluded shores.†  (source)
  • The powerful magnates of the Beef Trust responded by vilifying Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair, dismissing their accusations, and launching a public relations campaign to persuade the American people that nothing was wrong.†  (source)
  • The water magnate was scowling, concentrating on his dinner.†  (source)
  • He felt he could kill the bankers and the financiers and the magnates and the clerks—all the people who built prim little houses with hedged gardens full of English flowers for preference.†  (source)
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