Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weddings mean a deluge of gifts and Doctor. Hampton has a small army of relatives whose contributions might feed the starving for months. Hence it is up to the doctor to get married, or at least plan on getting married, and invitations are accordingly sent, particularly to one rich uncle, announcing that his nephew is on the road to wedding bells. The presents come, lingerie for the bride, and on top of this the uncle arrives in town to see the bushing wife...
Critics. Mark Van Doren, in The Nation: "The most rousing volume of verse I have seen in a long time. . . . Few are as rich with the beauty and strength which belongs to genius alone...
...from the French by Ben Ray Redman ? Henry Holt ($2.50). Among other notable equipment, the French mind possesses a love of Definition and innumerable definitions of Love. Remain Rolland, who professes that his characters choose him rather than he them, has now been selected by a strong-headed, rich-blooded French virgin (Annette) for the purpose of establishing, beyond all peradventure, certain emotional processes: how she came, after her wild but lovable father's death, to hate her vulgarian half-sister (Sylvie), then to love her passionately; to love an Italian bravo, forget him; then to love burly...
Boston, furthermore, is a singularly auspicious spot in which to launch a psychic society, for it has always been rich in psychic material. It is sufficient to mention the names of Mrs. Piper, the most famous medium who ever lived, Mrs. Soule, Mr. Foss, and "Margery...
...Nedell, who for some reason or other were white spats, aspired to be a second Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford, and wrote home tales of amazing financial successes before these lucrative chicks had ever really hatched. The town on Lowe Falls, Mass., worshipped their here and budding millionaire and longed for his return. This was properly affected when his one time army buddy arrived with a perfectly respectable Rolls Royce, after having deposited his inebriated employer on a train for Providence. Just why anybody in such a condition should want to go to Providence is still a matter open to doubt...