Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slowly mounted the rostrum and then stood mopping his bald head, amid the rattle of handclaps and the roar of "Hoch! Hoch! HOCH!" Dr. Stresemann seemed paler than usual but otherwise utterly "the typical German," plump, correct and full of earnest energy. He, the smart son of a rich brewer, is the great Foreign Minister who has held office while eight German cabinets have fallen, and his ailing kidneys are those which have been of vital interest to all Europe for half a year...
...Midnight. A signal, a shout. Then the sound of machinery drilling in the black earth, while lights gleamed on 92 steel derricks and cut the black sky. That was midnight, last week, when an agreement to curtail drilling in the rich Maud and Mission territory near Seminole, Okla., came...
They showed a rich American scorning war; later joining up. They showed him, by a misadventure, killing his buddy and feeling pretty badly about it. Cynics recalled a not dissimilar situation in Wings. They showed his loved one as a song and dance girl in an army theatre. They showed his loved one all but shot as a German spy, her salvation being his presence in the firing squad. Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah...
WHEN I GROW RICH - Ethel Sidgwick - Harpers...
...super-house" of When I Grow Rich is a glorified boarding house in Bloomsbury run by eight young, and mostly struggling, artists, doctors, and unclassified. Each lays claim to one charm or another, but queen of them all is Auburn whose frankness, not to mention beauty, intensely endears her to at least two of the boarders - one of them idle-rich, and pathetically eager to be of small services; the other poor, but Scotch and ambitious. The triangle is pulled awry by the affairs of the house - one boarder blackballs another to conceal a theft and a clandestine love affair...