Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undaunted, the feminists and their Communist leaders marched away to the house of a rich Persian merchant. His wife they suspected to be held imprisoned and frequently castigated because she had ventured to enter a bazaar veilless some months ago, had been seized by her husband's retainers, shut up in solitude. With the assistance of the Russian police, roused to investigate the Persian's house, a door was forced and the inner compound entered. At a stake set up in a pool of muddy offal was found, chained like a dog, the merchant's feminist wife...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate rich-boy, husband of Princess Xenia of Greece: "Milk squirted, glass flew high and wide as my automobile crashed into a milk wagon at Flushing, N.Y., en route from Manhattan to Spratbrae, my Oyster Bay, L. I., home. The hit horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur...
...doctors had leisure for research, facilities for research, if they had the money that would permit leisure and would give facilities, they would find cures for disease. Rich men have given great sums for the furtherance of medical knowledge. Some have given with the impersonal benevolence of the Rockefellers (Rockefeller Foundation) and of those contributors to the $1,000,000 endowment of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (TIME, Feb. 14 et ante). Others have given put of the ache of personal tragedies. The wife of Lucius N. Littauer, "Gloversville, N. Y., glove maker, died of pneumonia...
This malted irony suddenly appeared in Der Tag, potent Berlin newspaper owned by Herr Alfred Hugenberg, the late Hugo Stinnes' publicist: "The envious glance of the Yankee turns to rich and flourishing Germany. . . . These [German] barbarians do not even chew gum, but smoke tobacco prodigally and vulgarly. They drink real beer, eat mountains of cake with whipped cream instead of American ice cream and they consume butter, milk, eggs, poultry, and even fruit. Finally, they still drink coffee...
...voices flow, never tiresome, liquid, direct, humorous, full of "yunnuh" (you), "enty" (isn't that so?), 'sho'," "Jedus." A three-dimensional talking cinema could reproduce folk-life no more fully nor could any director efface himself as completely as Mrs. Peterkin to let a rich stream of life take its own way through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April is a full size product, as authentic as a bumper cotton crop. The Author. Her birthday was Halloween, 1880. Her mother died and she was reared by an oldtime Negro "mauma." Her name, Julia Mood, was near...