Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This woman has a husband who loves her and yet laughs at her domestic defections. He is suddenly reported dead. An earnest young man offers marriage and a rich continental suggests a Mediterranean trip on his yacht to console her. The husband reappears, agrees to his wife's departure first with the young man, then with the old one, finally receives her happily back into his arms...
...Jerusalem Rather Bethlehem Gave us that which Maketh life rich- Not Jerusalem...
...agents provocateurs" of the various merchant guilds revived the Rule of the Mendicant Friars in all save one respect, while the guild Chambers of each district devoted a large part of their interests and revenues to philanthropic activities. The old inns were transformed into Churches of Community Service and richly endowed, so that their previous functions became almost incidental. Wayside shrines, often of a rich and peculiar beauty, everywhere adorned the countryside and added to the general welfare by serving as gasoline filling-stations. The cult strongly emphasized reverence to local saints, who were all bidden by their Order...
...boys for a long time. Of an evening, when quizzes are corrected and report cards made out, instead of a cigar, bridge and radio at the Faculty Club, he permits himself to muse on humanities that are "shop" to most of his profession. Andivius Hedulio (1921) was the rich biography of a Roman youth in the tawny splendor of the Augustan Age. Now Scholar White fleshes in that (violet-eyed, dusky-haired) laconic lady who dislocated the destinies of Troy...
SERENA BLANDISH-A Lady of Qual-ity- Doran ($2.50). "Though it is better to marry a young man, best to marry a rich man, next best to marry a distinguished man, it is better to marry a crossing sweeper than not to marry at all," said Countess Flor di Folio to Serena Blandish when, struck by the girl's beauty, poverty and discretion, she made her a member of her household and launched her upon her desperate enterprise. She met many men who made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena...