Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ours is a very rich family. The opportunities, as provided by our family, were the same for us brothers...
...third act where a son describes to her face and with some emphasis Ms mother's moral status. From this and other reports the impression was current that the play was modern, obscene and objectionable. It turned out to be a study, in several of the characters, of idle rich degeneracy. So true was the portraiture, so sure the writing, so engrossing the setting, and so perfect the performance that it occurred to no one to object to anything. The play was unanimously noted as the best of the early season...
Souls for Sables. The heart sinks at such a title. You can conjure the plot with the most elementary mental work. You know that some poor girl sold herself to some rich man and then was sorry. So she did. Running through the film there is a parallel tale of another girl who almost did the same thing. When girl No. 1 ended with a bullet in her heart, girl No. 2 hurried back to her husband. Claire Windsor is the principal performer...
Mack sold Hartvigsen an old seine and when a vast school of herring, pursued by whales, happened to get bottled in a creek, he made a rich "shot" (haul). Mack told him he should get married now and buy a mortgage on the Sirilund trading station. So Hartvigsen gave his silver for a mortgage. He also talked with Rosa as Mack suggested. They were agreed. He enlarged his house, bought doves and a piano, stretched his mighty arms. He scarcely noticed Rosa pucker her nose when he boasted of his money and compared himself to Mack...
...What has conduct to do with passing examinations? And what more natural, with a long year of college discipline ahead of them, than for boys who have been grilling through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks? Particularly when some of the boys are rich and spoiled, with a suite at the Taft Hotel, another in New York, and a sleek roadster in the garage; or when they are bumptious zanies anxious to impress the loose-lived upperclassmen with whom they find themselves thrown; or full-blooded Nordics soon to go into training? The parental...