Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoky industrial outskirts to the 'old town.' Saw the Staromestska Radnice (Town Hall) dating from 1381, and the picturesque old Tyn Church, just across the Tyn (Market Place) where the German traders used to come in the 14th Century. So many of them came and got rich that now the Germans control a major portion of the industry of Prague, though they number only about five per cent of its half million population. Remarked to my guide that such a situation must produce a good deal of friction between the Germans and the Czechs...
...Quartet of Brussels-"young lions of the conservatoire," one and all. With much gusto two of these attacked a most modern sonata, compounded of unconvincing fifths, dissonances and Debussyesque decoration, with which Albert Huybrechts, young Belgian, had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize for 1926.* Compositions by. other Belgians-rich, sensuous Cesar Franck and trickier Joseph Jongen, little-known chief of the Brussels Conservatory. The afternoon was devoted to Russians, with the Stringwood Ensemble of New York at the desks. Many a 100% Congressman might have glowered had he known that the group of Russian peasant songs sung by Baritone...
...Rich-If you do not mind the title you will like the show...
...been no ideal diversion; it has been his vocation--his life. He has gone out into Victoria part to meet the Atheists face to face, to answer their pet poses with ready wit, and win their hearts by his genial comradeship. He has the same access to the rich as to the poor. He does not divorce preaching and practise...
...help tennis to become more popular. It will not be a game just for college men, but for all people. That is, good players will be able to make their living at tennis just as much as in golf. It will be possible to play without having to be rich. At present all our good players come from the wealthy, educated class. That will not continue when one can make money in tennis. More people will learn to play...