Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because he was marrying a Roman Catholic and naturally the Hesse family would never acknowledge a Roman Catholic family (wife and future children) belonging to them as leaders. It is certainly a love match and of course a very poor marriage for the King of Italy's rich daughter; the Savoy family is very wealthy. But, owing to King Victor Emmanuel's hatred of social life and his insistence on a domestic life much more secluded than that of his subjects, his daughters, the Italian princesses, have grown up rather wild in their ways, with a hatred...
...grow up big and rich that...
...Emerson Hall have come since. The University Museum has been doubled, and then there is the Library. It is the best university library in the country. It is more than that. If your idea of a scholar's library is a place where serious students will find a rich store of precious books which they can study under the most advantageous and liberal conditions, why, the Harvard Library will stand comparison with any university or city or State library in the World...
...chief desire, poor man, is to make a good impression. Poorly paid, he hints at his rich friends; insignificant, he talks of the great; uneducated, he prattles of Shakespeare and quotes frightful Latin. Such men invariably fool some people; although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the heart of her daughter Amy (Wintfred Wellington); and though the Fishers all think Amy a nit-wit to marry him. Piper proves, by his efforts to save their talented son from being swindled out of his rights as an inventor, that he is the best friend of the family...
Centers--W. J. Anderson, C. E. Brown, Creighton Churchill, D. B. Dorman, R. S. Holden, Henry Howard, C. P. Jackson, T. S. Kernan, F. N. Rich. L. M. Shapiro...