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Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Unknown
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Her R. S. V. P.'s were always accepted. R. finally lost her
money, and with it her friends. Ambition: The man of the
hour. Epitaph: When She Had It She Spent It.

REMBRANDT, Dutch painter who specialized in portraits of old
ladies and Rembrandt. Also brought considerable fame down upon
himself by filling a museum in Amsterdam with tourist-drawing
paintings.

REMINGTON, the man who invented a typewriter at which many
pretty stenographers[11] sit.

[11] Ed. Note: Advertisement for the stenographers, not the
machine.



REVIEWER, The Book, he is the fellow who said a chef-d'oeuvre
like Who Was Who should be used for ballast.

RHODES, Cecil, a poor boy who saved his money and purchased
South Africa.

RHODES, Colossus of, a giant of antiquity who was not killed by
a stone. He rusted to death.

RICHELIEU, Cardinal, the man who held down the throne for Louis
XIII, and disagreed with the Duke of Buckingham.

RITZ, innkeeper who made hotels in which we all would like to
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