Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paolo Strozzi" is rich in allusions, wealthy in Renaissance background. It is painted in only the deepest and most beautiful Italian reds and Simone Martin blues and golds. (The poem would have been a better success as a prose explanation of a panel painting...
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...novelist. Creating in a prose form, she sometimes goes far beyond the facts of her narrative into a poetic interpretation of their significance in her characters. Her feeling for heart and flesh is so complete, her understanding of it so thorough and so articulate, that her book, flourishing a rich and rhythmic language, seldom loses its acute power. The Author, a native of Kentucky whither her ancestors voyaged with Daniel Boone, graduated in 1921 from the University of Chicago, where she had shared the young literary enthusiasms
...convention in which his innumerable and, to a reader, indistinguishable relatives are contentedly bogged. His marriage serves only to anchor him more deeply in the sticky golden marsh; mild affairs with other women are not sufficient to release him. Finally, even this rebellious but unsturdy member of the rich and quiet tribe lies down reluctantly with the others, forced to derive such pleasure as he can from tasting the sticky sugar which has so effectively imprisoned him. It is well that Author Biddle, unlike his character, was able to achieve (inspired perhaps by the less rigidly conventional pattern...
Some deposits which are apparently rich and deep prove to be only a thin layer of profitable ore over worthless rock. Electrical instruments are being devised to register not only the presence of metals, but the extent of the ore pocket, and so prevent wasted efforts. Metals have a decided influence upon delicate electrical mechanism, and the various effects of each metal give a key to the nature of the concealed deposit...