Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover was tempted to tell his favorite story, about a cow in China during the Boxer Rebellion. This cow belonged to the Hoovers and they cherished her because good rich milk WAS rare then and there. Some predatory Germans took the cow. Forth-went the Hoovers leading their cow's small calf through narrow streets, punching and-prodding it into a grief-stricken moo-oo-ooing. Mother cow, hidden behind walls, heard the call of her young and mooed back maternally. Out rushed the Germans?and took away the calf...
...Rich Miss Radclyffe Hall, author of the suppressed Lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (TIME, Dec. 31), contributed $5,000 to the fund, last week, after selling for that sum to the Glasgow Art Gallery a portrait of the late Mrs. George Batten by John Singer Sargent. It had been bequeathed to her by Mrs. Batten...
...Elegant Eighties. A decade passed, and another young man, walking down the same aisle, awakened even gentler, more contented rustlings. For while a church is properly proud of a Good Young Man, no bounds are set to its love of a Good Young Man who is also Rich. And this particular young man was so very Rich, and promised in time to be so incredibly Rich, that all Baptists everywhere thought of him with gushing Christian tenderness...
...young men grew older. At length, one of them grew quite elderly. Last week, the Good Young Man, 66, went to the aid of the Rich Young Man, 55, in a battle in which both Riches and Goodness were of superlative importance...
Paul Kirkwood was rich and married- to Claire, daughter of his father's financial partner. Claire felt the marriage without love, and she lugged away from Paul. It was while he was building the dam in loneliness that he saw Carla, strapping, kindly village teacher. Paul wrote Claire extolling Carla, which brought Claire post-haste to the forest-river country. There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini. Paul fell in. "And then, on the cliff, one woman said to another: 'Are you going with him?' The woman spoken to gazed wide...