Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...butcher" and a "thief." He was said to have ordered the shooting of countless Cubans out of hand. And at the same time he was alleged to have secretly sold Spanish arms to Cuban rebels, and levied "taxes" upon Cuban merchants which enabled him to return to Spain the rich man that he is. The Spanish version of the matter has usually been that his régime was considered too ineffectively mild by the Government at Madrid, which accordingly recalled him. He once remarked: "All who submitted to me were pardoned. I was naturally inflexible with traitors...
Several times in the last seven years the Italian Government has shaken a stern, denying finger at rich U. S. citizens who have tried to buy objects from the collection of Achillito Chiesa of Milan. Chiesa before the War acquired a great gallery of pre-Renaissance painting, including a triptych by Orcagna, a picture each of Simone, Martini and Bellini, 1,200 other paintings of the 11th to 16th Centuries, early enamels, ivories, textiles, furniture, porcelain, faience, majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse...
Engaged. Georgette Cohan, 25, actress, daughter of famed comedian George M. Cohan, nine-months-widow of J. W. Souther, to one H. Rowse, "rich perfumer." Her father is alleged to have remarked: "Georgette's fiancé is a great guy. They don't come better. It's a matter for enthusiastic approval...
...system is in that interesting period of its growth in which it may be said to have conquered initial opposition without yet crystallizing into any final shape. Conscious of security, it may face criticism without suspecting enemies in ambush and profit from the lessons which its own brief but rich life may teach...
...usually been begging in the larger cities. Not only is this so since the war; it has always been more or less the case. But here in America we have seen very little begging or selling of shoe-laces on the streets." "Briefly," supplemented Mr. R. H. Bernays, "your rich are not so rich, and your poor are not so poor. In this country there is not the tremendous inequality that exists in Europe...