Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first scene represents a typical street in Venice during its gay carnival time. On one side of the stage is the stately house of a rich Bolognese doctor, with an arched doorway, and a broad balcony looking down upon the stage. Across the way is the entrance to an inn, the "Aquila D'Ors". Between the two buildings are steps and an embankment, which suggest the presence of a canal, and above which may be seen a deep expanse of sunny Venetian...
Spring Cleaning. Critics observe that every dramatist is bound by the inevitable to write before his span of life is done a play in which a street walker walks into a drawing room unannounced. She usually walks out again leaving a group of idle rich attempting to reassemble the fragments of their devastated philosophy. Such is the current effort of Frederick Lonsdale, Englishman, author of Aren't We All. Inserting his tiny needle point of humor into this familiar situation, he has injected various stimulating charges of the unexpected. He sustains, therefore, the interest...
...jousting. On the one side was the mighty Samuel Untermyer, champion of Mrs. Stokes. On the other side rose Max D. Steuer, challenger for the irate husband. As lawyers both men rank with the Launcelots, Bediveres and Geraints, if not the Galahads. And for the sake of the rich rewards at stake, they jousted at one another as much as at the other's client...
...university professors in America: "The rich heritage of learning given by Germany to the world may be laid waste...
...press hailed the change as an epoch in the annals of Labor and Journalism. But it seems that Labor is even less competent as a journalist than Socialism. The paper came too near the rocks and is in a fair way to suffer a sea-change, strange, if not rich...