Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scotland. Her love lies at the feet of a young commoner and is brusquely seized and hurled toward a wicked Prince from the Balkans. The Prince nearly gets her until she discovers that he has been betting with her large estates which he never possessed. Back comes the commoner, rich and forgiving. Ronald Colman in the latter part again indicates his great possibilities...
Here is a play crowded with entertainment value in the simplest sense of the word--a little of vaudeville in the scattered character of its events, very much of musical comedy in its rich welding of sentiment and gaiety. I am not sure that "The Moon Is a Gong" is a great play. But there can be no question that the production given it last night by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the direction of Mr. Edward Massey is extraordinarily memorable and stirring. Mr. Massey has approached this difficult production frankly from the point of view of musical comedy...
Winston Churchill (Conservative, Chancellor): "Let the Socialists go after Jan. 4 next to the 200,000 widows who, with 350,000 children, will be enjoying their pensions and let them say to these people: 'You are victims of a rich man's budget.' Let them go into 6,000,000 homes and tell the wives who will have behind them a guarantee they will not be left penniless if anything happens to the breadwinner: 'Here is another case of the Conservative Party helping their friends.' Let them go in 1928 to the 500,000 men and women...
...Turnbull, whose querulous existence up to that point had been in potting jam and waiting for her husband to speak at table, was deprived of her jam-pots and suffered to board at her doctor-son's house. The curate-son, with his rich wife and her pet lemur, got the Shelton living...
Sometimes the poem, submitting too much to manner, misses the rhythm which its theme imposes; equally often it rises, with an orchestration of dark vowel music, thrusting cadences, rich rhymes dexterously jarring, to utterance that will stamp Mr. MacLeish, young Boston Irishman, as an important poet to all those who attach importance to perfection of expression...