Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunters! Gottlieb was decrepit, Leora gone. Arrowsmith tried life as the scientist husband of a rich widow. No good. Finally he buried himself in the Vermont woods, tracking down bacteriological verities with Terry Wickett. As the world saw it, he had "failed...
...role is that of a dawdling cook, left behind in France after the armistice, who is bagged as the 14th guest at a gold-plate dinner of superstitious, rich Americans. He disrupts the party, in accepted operetta vein, with goofy behavior. Eventually he performs a rowdy dance with Ethel Shutta, the latter seeming, in looks and behavior, to be Nora Bayes stretched to the nth degree...
...Ever since my father took me as a small boy to visit Hampton ..." Those words, uttered last week, created for those who read them a curious picture. They saw a certain very rich man, old even then, with a sharp, meagre face and deliberate gait, dragging by the hand a small, disagreeable-looking boy in a homely tunic, who cast terrified glances behind him at faces that leered from entries and windows-agreeable faces enough, but black as tar, with large white teeth, white eyeballs, which that backward-staring boy found inconceivably horrible. John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller...
...LONG GREEN GAZE -Vincent Fuller-Huebsch ($2.00). Reading a detective story, did you ever want to be the detective? Here is your chance-unless you gave up crossword puzzles for Lent. A rapid murder story unfolds -rich old lady, priceless emerald, circle of relatives, mystical Babu-soluble only through the answers to eight puzzles discovered near the crime-scene. For quitters and non-detectives, the answers are sealed in the back of the book...
...everyone within range, has given way to the more gentlemanly rapier. The vigorous action of the government has largely accounted for the change; but the ironic observer could point out that though the old methods are now despised and outlawed, the Gould family has through them emerged--immensely rich and respected...