Ironically, this made Scrooge a much less wealthy man than he could have been.
Set in Philadelphia, the story depicts two orphaned brothers who kidnap a wealthy man, played by Baldwin.
There is no doubt, though, that Moon was a very wealthy man.
And what I like about Steve is, because he is a wealthy man, we all know that and that helped him get the transplant.
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He retired a wealthy man in 1940, but 10 years later poor investments had cost him his fortune, forcing him to make a comeback.
This is the story of a wealthy man who, having ended up in jail, became, as he says, a participant in a grand show.
Team Bad Company figures that despite sport fishing's image as a wealthy man's sport, the right promotional strategy will lure fans of different income levels.
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is a very wealthy man.
Tiger Woods made Steve Williams a very wealthy man, and perhaps the best-known athlete in New Zealand as well as one of the more recognizable caddies in professional golf.
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Ms. A. ROSSI: I always thought that this daughter should - a very, very wealthy man so that she could spend all her time if she wanted just in front of a canvass.
Hence, in Japan, when a wealthy man died, the eldest son inherited all, generally land, and the younger siblings, who were equally educated, tended to migrate to the cities and transferred their allegiance to the emperor rather than their families.
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The story is a bit of fluff, its charming characters engaged in a mix-up so contrived it beggars even theatrical suspension of disbelief: The penniless Count and Countess Waldner hope to marry their daughter Arabella to a wealthy man, and since they can't afford to launch younger daughter Zdenka into society at the same time, they have her dress as a boy.
He had earlier been an uninhibited legacy-hunter, expediently making friends with a dying but wealthy young man.
The wealthy money man James Rogers Jr. says our 98-year-old central bank is doomed, one reason he likes to own commodities.
Polanski has been nominated for Oscars for directing "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Chinatown" (1974) and "Tess" (1980), an adaptation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles, " the Thomas Hardy novel about a young peasant woman whose life collapses after a wealthy older man seduces her.
Maybe I'm filled with the milk of human kindness, or perhaps I have a soft spot for supermodels--I'm a gay man, so I have at least one soft spot for supermodels--but I actually believe that it's possible for a beautiful, young woman to fall in love with an obscenely wealthy older man.
But the actual reasons why this wealthy and cultured man defaced the very things he cherished may never be known.
"Church was a young man from a wealthy family in Hartford, " Ms. Jacks explained.
Barnabas is a young man from a wealthy family, the builders of a town called Collinsport.
While there, he befriended a wealthy plantation owner and medical man, and subsequently married his widow.
Francis Grew, senior curator at the museum, said the man would have been wealthy and well-respected and may even have been a "commuter" into the Roman city of Londinium.
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The 1983 comedy starred Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy as, respectively, a wealthy trader and a street con man whose lives are upended by the dastardly Duke brothers.
Davos Man and Woman are not only wealthy but healthy too, which is clearly much better than being sick and poor.
He said this was odd because the man must have come from a wealthy, important family to have been buried in a place that was the equivalent of London's Westminster Abbey or St Paul's Cathedral.
Voters in Washington state rejected a proposal put on the ballot by Bill Gates senior, the father of America's richest man, to introduce a personal income tax for wealthy people.
Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) is collaborating with novelist Bret Easton Ellis to make a psychological horror titled Bait, about a young man on the prowl to get his revenge against the wealthy.
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