Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor-rich man who said, "Thanks"; fell dead...
Critics of Governor Fuller's action were many. Some said salaries of public officials are too low to permit poor men to serve the public, should be raised and accepted by all; otherwise rich men have an irrelevant advantage...
British boardinghouse keepers and other "ladies come down in the world" twittered approvingly last week over a copy of the Times in which the will of Samuel William Farmer, rich Wilshire squire, was published. His entire estate amounting to ?400,000 ($1,945,000) was bequeather "to be used for the benefit of upper middle and professional class persons of both sexes who through ill health or advancing years are unable to earn a living...
Wuchang, a rich and potent city just across the river from Hankow, held out against Chang last week, though the siege which he laid to it reduced the inhabitants (including 21 U. S. citizens) to a state bordering on famine...
They stood in the hallway of the bishop of their diocese-young Jack and Bernardone and the bishop. At their feet was a parcel of rich woven-stuffs, linen and cloth of gold, a silver altar cloth, a sword-belt. The bishop, brown and quiet, was explaining something, half-humorously, to Pietro Bernardone; the merchant seemed too angry to hear him. Had he ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws...