Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Palmer, long associate rector at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and now a professor in the exceedingly orthodox Biblical Seminary in Manhattan, put the preacher's temptation into blunt words last week: "I could have become rich if I had married all the divorced persons who wanted to be wed. At the Fifth Avenue Church there were hundreds of divorced couples who presented themselves for marriage. Some came to see me; others telephoned. Not a small number were wealthy and, though they never, in my experience, actually offered extraordinary fees for the performance of the service...
...these nineteen-twenties made in the conductor's image. That is to say, it is an essentially ultra-modern orchestra, in which each choir sharpens its characteristics. From sweetness and light to sonorities and shadows the strings play intensively. The wood-winds are edged and pungent: the brass rich in the horns, piercing in the trumpets, full-throated elsewhere: the percussion for tang and tingle. Gone are the gentle instrumental voices, as they would now seem, that elderly subscribers recall from Gericke's time...
Married. Gustave Maurice Heck-sher, 43, real estate broker, son of August Hecksher, capitalist; to Luella Gear Chandler, 28, onetime comedienne in Queen High, musical comedy, and onetime wife of rich Byron Chandler. Mr. Hecksher was divorced last year in Paris by Louise Vanderhoff...
When the resolution was proposed, only three gentlemen present exhibited much surprise. The first of these was one Louis Henry Francisco. No one had invited Mr. Francisco. He had just "dropped in," he said, from San Diego, Calif. He described himself as a rancher, a rich man, an intimate of laborers, bankers, clergymen. He had, he said, solved all the country's economic and international problems. He was, he said, the originator of the so-called Dawes Reparations Plan. He, Louis Henry Francisco, was, he insisted, the man of the hour, the long-sought, the logical, the "most available" candidate...
...soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...