Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somehow great King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The hoofbeats become a roar, and then the gilded coach or sleigh is seen. In the darkness its powerful interior lighting reveals the King, often in his golden crown, lolling at ease yet disconsolate. A robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women. The mad King loves, and believes he has always loved, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), wife of Louis XVI. For her Ludwig has built Linderhof, an improvement (think Bavarians...
Such a madman, such a King, could touch the Bavarian heart, fire imaginations, make the very enormity of his follies a .source of national pride. "What country but Bavaria could produce a king so mad as ours?" asked contented tradespeople as they grew rich supplying his luxuries. Even today, Ludwig II, who drowned himself in a fury at last, seems a hero to Bavaria...
...With the rich tones of a flute fashioned of fine gold, with motion pictures of rippling lines "recording sound waves, Professor Dayton Clarence Miller of the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, illustrated last week "The Basis of Tone Quality in Instrumental Music...
...desire for adventurous living dulled by environment, Branch Diversey found himself, at the outset of the War, an onlooker at life. Brought up by an overcareful mother, he had not followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus. Instead he had made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that he will enlist and come back...
...Rich But Honest tells how two poor working girls jilt their garagemen steadies for life on the stage. One rises to the spectacular part of Lady Godiva in a voluminous blond wig. The other gets a rich beau with "honorable intentions...