Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barriesque unworldliness, Virginia provides romance-weavers with a fabric ready-made. Stephena Cockrell takes heart of grace from this fact and adds another novel to the away-down-south-in-Dixie list. She goes about the task with a directness arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first time, constitutes good bait...
...west of Palm Beach lies Lake Okeechobee in the tangled Everglades. It is 45 miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout...
Cross My Heart is an unpretentious little musicale. Its attractive qualities are summed up in the word cunning. Songs are not important in its story of a charming girl called Sally Blake (Mary Lawlor) pursued by the Maharajah of Mah-ha and in love with a rich boy masquerading as an orchestra leader...
...With him were 3 young picklock and a less specialized, more versatile scoundrel. After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses). The raucous trulls at Fat Margot's knew him well. The haughtier but hardly more discriminate Katherine de Vausselles flippantly ignored his lust for her when he could no longer buy pretty trinkets...
Among the unforgivable sins in the rigid social code of the University, overdevelopment of the acquisitive abilities is not the least. The touching elbows of scholars must be wellworn. Not so with the institutions of the University. Their acquisitiveness is free of aggressiveness, and when they grow rich it is in a way unlike any other prosperity that is. The University feels the obligations of new wealth. It is humbled, as at the sight of something greater than itself, and proud, as at an enduring confidence...