Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert Jones' ranch one hot summer day with the mortgage due at 8 o'clock, a fretful uncle making a nuisance of himself, Gilbert's old sweetheart and her unpleasant husband complicating matters, and everybody fighting for possession of the ranch and the oil that would make its owner rich. Into this atmosphere charged with hate and what not besides comes Pancho Lopez to show how one can set the world aright with a sense of humor, a Colt 45, and a Machiavellian philosophy...
...himself is said to take satisfaction in the official version of the matter, which is that he has waited to resign his post until recent French successes have made the fruits of his early labors again secure. His enemies frankly hint that Abd-el-Krim had nearly blasted the rich protectorate of Lyautey, root and branch. Petain, they insist, must have full credit for saving...
...control of the territory around Peking and of several provinces just north of the Yangtze River, would start a war by invading Shansi Province. His motives would be: 1) to embarrass the existing official government at the time of the Customs Conference; 2) to capture Shansi, a rich province which has never been completely controlled by any of the leading rival warlords...
...growing upon him to avoid his family, to be alone and do nothing. Their solicitude stifled him. His Jewish son-in-law's florid devotion to the memory of Tom Outland-whom he had never known but whose inventions, willed to Rosamond St. Peter, had made him rich-was an affront to which bt. Peter could say nothing...
...talker. He talks so much and so smoothly that he does not bother to work. The system suffices until he talks another man out of his fiancee and marries her himself. Then, in a heroic bit of utter implausibility in the last act, he talks himself into his rich uncle's favor. Apparently he is going to go through" life on the same principle. Not a bad idea, but is it practicable...