Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevada. Raymond T. Baker, Democrat, v. Senator Tasker L. Oddie, Republican. Mr. Baker, rich, romantic, fashionable, is popular enough among Nevada's 33,000 voters to be given a slight edge over his opponent, who is rich but not romantic...
That, according to famed Electro-Mechanist Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: "No rich man in the United States should die without leaving something to Johns Hopkins, the pioneer university of the United States...
...never get rich...
...There are other verses of the song, but this much is only pertinent. Your editorial suggested a parallel between graduate students and ditch-diggers. There is one, decidedly. Some graduate study consists largely in the digging of intellectual ditches, and will never "get you rich", even in ideas. But beyond that, there is the study which may be compared with marching and fighting, with exploring and discovering...
...plays are corrupting the English language in its native land according to Mr. C. B. Cochran, London theatrical producer. No longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...