Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classes, depending on whether the speaker did or did not represent the Federal Government. Of the latter sort was Mayor Thompson's address which termed the flood "an indictment of and challenge to the Federal Government," something which "might have been expected in China but not in the rich America with its boasted good government...
...Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi pointed to the "surplus of $600,000,000" in the U. S. Treasury, said the country was rich enough to control floods...
...Perhaps the most striking single event of the week in China was the sending of 2,000 Japanese troops to Tsingtao (Shantung), where, it was announced they will "protect Japanese lives and property." Observers thought it not unlikely that the post World War claims of Japan to Shantung, a rich province, will now be permanently revived...
...simple glee, vocalizing over three stumps, serenading the birds, celebrating Zita, Rigo's elfin granddaughter. She falls in love with a society man. There is mystery about Zita's male parentage which, when unriddled, restores society to good standing in the woods and Zita to her rich lover. For sheer dramatic prostration, Tales of Rigo is positively pathological. On the second night, two cats wandered across the stage...
...ideal embodiment, with "something unearthly about her." David, the poet, finds that whereas Hilda realizes for him a dream of beauty, the lower depths of his nature are called to the surface by the warm, red lips of Scarlet. The conflict goes on until Hilda, who is married to rich and lecherous John Elliot, dies. Still tormented by the remembrance that for a moment he has yielded to the wiles of Scarlet, David dreams of Hilda. Finally he too dies, presumably to join her later...