Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empty phrase, for the training which these women receive equips them to enter other professions. Some, broadening and deepening as the years pass, make excellent mothers to rich little children; others keep their figures and their friends and go on entertaining long after their footlight days are over; a few seek fame. Last week one Mary Lewis was engaged by Gatti-Casazza to sing with the Metropolitan Opera. Before her debut in January as Mimi in La Bohème she will give a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...
...invalid, rich provender...
...lord chancellor. As the first voters approached the polls, they were greeted by a sally of thoroughly putrefied eggs. Pease meal followed, a light shower, and a few handfuls of soot. More voters appeared and the campaign arguments thickened-clouds of eggs, bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts, the object being to keep your...
Florida is a sunny state; her ground is rich, her seas warm, the hearts of her sons blithe. But the milkmen of Florida do not leave bottles of champagne on the stoop with their morning deliveries; cigarstore men do not use ten-dollar bills for coupons; melons are not filled with wine; cream does not run down the hills; checkbooks do not grow on trees in Florida. Last week in Manhattan a dozen prominent Floridians gathered to protest against the reckless and fraudulent exploitation which is hurting their state. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was in the chair. Coleman...