Word: mimosas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, single-handed and in his own right, el gran Mirador controls some 10% of the world's tin output. Many times a millionaire, Simon Patino lives in a gaudy and fantastic palace in Paris. He warms himself at his villa in a forest of pine and mimosa above Nice. His son is married to a Bourbon princess, one of his daughters to a Spanish marquis. In Bolivia the tax on his mines is the country's chief source of revenue. In 1926 Bolivia made him Minister to France, where he bought his own embassy. Patino Mines & Enterprises...
...loved the peerage, liked being its Librarian; was desolated when he was retired in 1914. Pedantic but not a first-rate scholar, Gosse once published a book (From Shakespeare to Pope) which was full of detectable howlers; they were detected. Gosse, wounded, quivering, became even more of a mimosa...