Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maharaja of Indore who, as everyone knows, was deserted by one of his dancing girls (Mumtaz Begum) last year and considered his princely honor so tarnished thereby that he reputedly despatched his Adjutant General and other trusted officials to abduct her from Abdul Kadir Bawla, rich merchant of Bombay, with whom she had taken refuge (TlME...
About a year ago Sir Henry Lunn, rich, respected, wrote a personal letter to the Very Reverend, the Provost, St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, which recorded his life's result...
Starting at sea level, the caravan slowly plodded through jungles of rich verdure and through luxuriant forests until the trees disappeared and they passed over glacial passes onto the flat barren plain of Tibet...
...thus unfortunate to confine his discernment to features of size, speed and novelty. Industrialism tends to emphasize a rapid rhythm at the expense of a lingering over the rich notes. When one rose is about to flower and one tree about to bear, whole gardens of novelties and orchards of variations are already in bud. Time is not left to determine whether the apple, apart from its fractional refinements, is socially palatable, much less to test its elder worth in the press of speculation...
...were not occasioned by Dr. Hybbinette's superlative surgical skill and his magnetic personality alone. Nor had he performed some new miracle with his keen scalpel. But one and all praised him for a habit that he has, a talented habit uncommon among surgeons. Dr. Hybbinette has a rich tenor voice. He has won many a prize by exercising it competitively, and it is his habit to enter the wards with music in his throat Bending over to change a dressing he will flood his patient with, perhaps, the rhapsodic Prize Song from Die Meistersingers. Even whetting his scalpel...