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Rich Rice Biography

Rich RiceAge: 39 fastpitch softball player who was inducted into the Central Washington men's fastpitch softball hall of fame the day of his death, which came after he collapsed during an all…

The Devil's Dictionary: Rich

by Ambrose Bierce RICE-WATERRICHESRICH -adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That…

The Devil's Dictionary: Riches

by Ambrose Bierce RICHRIDICULERICHES -n. A gift from Heaven signifying, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." - John D. Rockefeller The reward of toil and virtue…

The Rich Man's Wife

Director/Writer: Amy Holden Jones Director of Photography: Haskell Wexler Editor: Wendy Grene Bricmont Music: John Frizzell Production Designer: Jeannine Oppewall Producers…

Brewer's: Ramsay the Rich

Ramsay used to be called the Croesus of our English abbeys. It had only sixty monks of the Benedictine order to maintain, and its revenues allowed 1,000 a year to the abbot, and 100 a year…

Brewer's: Rich as Croesus

(See Croesus.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Rich as a JewRice thrown after a Bride A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…

Brewer's: Rich as a Jew

This expression arose in the Middle Ages, when Jews were almost the only merchants, and were certainly the most wealthy of the people. There are still the Rothschilds among them, and…

Brewer's: Passing Rich

Goldsmith tells us in his Deserted Village, that the clergyman was “passing rich with 350.” “A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”Goldsmith:…

Rich Mullins Biography

Rich MullinsChristian singer, songwriterBorn: 10/21/1955Birthplace: Richmond, Indiana After Amy Grant made a hit recording of his song “Sing Your Praise to the Lord” (1982), Mullins went on…

Rich Little Biography

Rich Littleimpressionist, comedianBorn: 11/26/1938Birthplace: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Perhaps the most impressive work Rich Little has done in movies is that about which most people are…