Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Responding to this condition, many a rich U. S. Jew followed last week the example of Manhattan dry goods merchant Nathan Straus who cabled $25,000 to Palestine, instructing that it be used for feeding and caring for earthquake sufferers without distinction of race or creed...
...powerful trilogy of forces ceaselessly exert themselves to oust the bespectacled Doctor; and therefore he won a momentous point last week, by securing the extension of his contract. Against him are the old, vastly rich Persian families whom he has taxed; secondly, the many politicians whose powers he has curbed through controlling their salaries; and lastly, the numerous agents of Soviet Russia in Persia who have thoroughly satisfied themselves that Dr. Millspaugh is the chief agent of a vast Anglo-U. S. conspiracy to seize the oil and opium lands of Persia. The Doctor, although thus powerfully opposed, has greatly...
Meanwhile the rich standards of the Grenadier Guards dipped and swept the ground in salute. Soon the Household Cavalry moved off at a smart trot. Through a lane between applauding hands passed two sovereigns who have little in common except that they both collect stamps...
Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...
Dearie (Irene Rich). The lengths to which the U. S. Mother will go in order to send a fatherless son through college are herein demonstrated by the heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...