Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city manager movement, conceived the idea, last year, "that city managers generally are so engrossed in their own problems that they have little time to work out solutions of new problems of administration." Dr. Hatton went to Rochester, N. Y. and told his idea to George Eastman, rich and earnest friend of better city government...
...that this was made necessary by the threats from Communists. The Reds, on the contrary, decided to boycott the parade, to protest loudly, peacefully, far away from the "rich quarter" of the city where the "insolent cortege" is to be held. "Apres tout, mon vieux," quoth one old Frenchman to another. "Il ne sont que des gosses?n' importe quoi pourra se passer...
...ever before gathered in one place in the U. S. Many of them wore suede shoes; blue jackets with brass buttons, and nearly all of them soft grey felt hats. With them their ladies, gay in scarlet and gold, green and white. The squat structures were nearly saturated with rich men, sportsmen, society men and their ladies, when out on the magic carpet the witch- ery which had drawn them from across the world began. Polo ponies, 115, led by bright-turbaned Indians and blue bloused U. S. grooms, wound slowly around the field...
...automobiles. Across Salisbury Cove other fashionable people have their docks for swimming, in Winter Harbor. Along the coast is the polite and spectacular beauty of Mount Desert. Sorrento lies near the three, a village in which there are a few big country places and several inns, where people, rich and respectable rather than smart, stay for a few weeks or a month...
...which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship and came down on the Spanish coast. With him came down a navigator, a mechanic and E. B. Hosmer, rich Montrealer who had paid him huge, sums ($10,000 was quoted) for a ride across the Atlantic...