Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking English at a luncheon given by the English-speaking Union, Lord Lee of Fareham, the rich soldier-states-man who gave Chequers Court to the nation as a country home for her badly paid Prime Ministers, was expected to make some encouraging references to the satisfactory relations which governed Anglo-Saxons in Anglo-Saxondom...
...Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, smiled at Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Foreign Commissar. He then pulled his fountain pen from his pocket with a sharp, metallic click, unscrewed the top, shook it gently, scribbled something that passed for his signature. Tchitcherin countersigned. The Bolshevik Government had signed a rich manganese concession for 20 years to W. A. Harriman & Co. of Manhattan...
...that has made the Mayo Foundation famed throughout the world. Their hospital, bowered with lawns and orchards, has ten operating rooms. During the last four years, 28,970 abdominal operations have been performed there. On every train, the sick pour in-sometimes 200 a day. All are treated. The rich pay. The moderately circumstanced pay according to their means. As for the poor, they are cared for gratis...
Following Lampy's hors d'oeuvre the table of contents is served as a meat course. It is as rich as duck with stuffing. Walter Camp, described as the father of American sport, is eulogized by Alfred Hampton Barclay. Ernest E. Rogers follows Mr. Barclay with a how made on behalf of New London...
...advertisements, the four pages had offered amiable musings upon broad political and broader national issues: upon Art, Literature, even Manhattan Architecture and the conversation of shopgirls in subway trains as suggestive of the cycle through which this and other countries were passing. In the writing, there was a rich personal flavor, informal yet dignified, unhurried but never verbose. Each issue was a monolog by an unprejudiced ruminative man who was as likely to weave into his discourse some bright strand of slang as some fibrous or silken or homespun thread from Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Mark Rutherford, Andrew Marvell...