"fortune" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His father, Edgar, was an investment banker and heir to a railroad fortune.
- Thaw, heir to a Pittsburgh coal and railroad fortune, shot White because he couldn't abide the thought that White had taken his wife's virtue when she was 16.
- IN 1928, Templeton Crocker, a writer, naturalist and heir to a railroad fortune, went to Paris to commission fashionable furnishings and objects for his San Francisco penthouse.
- It was built in about 1902 by Howard Gould, an heir to a railroad fortune, not for royalty but for horses and carriages.
- This was the start of his railroad fortune.
- In 1923 Helen Hope Montgomery married Edgar Scott, an investment banker and heir to a railroad fortune.
- Harry's father had been married three times and his last wife, Harry's mother, had been an American heiress with a railroad fortune at her disposal.
- The murderer was Harry Thaw, the probably insane heir to a railroad fortune.
- Mr. Plummer was born in 1929 into the last remains of a Canadian railroad fortune.
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - a sculptor, heiress to one of the largest railroad fortunes in America and wife of a prominent banker - started the museum in 1931.
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