Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose it if I were to give way to pride and quit my humble home...
...Father to his side, But Mrs. had her mind quite set; Before shed take this, Russian, bride She first must learn her etiquette. The four are now Southampton-bound, Where live most all the idle rich, On Long, not Coney, Island Sound, And there, there dwelt the Jealous Witch...
When her father, famed States man Tang Shao-yi, sent her to college in the U. S. she naturally chose Barnard. There, in Manhattan, the vastly rich young girl could both study and taste very nearly all the U. S. has to offer-except "scenery." (She traveled during vacations. She saw.) At an age when Smith and Wellesley girls are translucent she was as opaque and baffling to a diplomat as to a dowager...
...spent his life less among men than in the pursuit of knowledge- mixing chemicals, examining minerals, pondering the earth's origin, improving oil lamps. He had never been in the U. S. but it occurred to him that in such a young country on such a rich continent at such an epochal moment in the history of science, invention and industry, there must be ample room for a fund to keep men's understanding abreast of men's undertakings.* James Smithson signed his whole estate over to the U. S. Government "to found at Washington, under...
...dining-rooms and salons of the Alfonso XIII are in the rich 17th Century Spanish style, hung with priceless Goya tapestries. Her promenade is finished in arabesques and tiled with Moorish mosaic recalling the Alhambra...