Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past century Harvard has been reputed the rich man's college. The Fellows and Overseers have usually been elected with an eye to their positions in the financial and social worlds. The recent case of the resignation of Professor Baker brought up the question of whether big business and liberal education could live together. When Mr. Chapman says not, he has the support of the best feelings of all true humanists. Colleges are becoming less and less cultural and more and more like standardized schools where the sons of business men learn willynilly the fine art of success in business...
Thus hearty Mr. Cochran, generous with dollars, jokes, and rich in both, came to own the piano. Immediately he presented it to the Association. Then the 18 artists played We Won't Go Home Till Morning. They improvised chopsticks; the tune was recorded on a player-piano role, auctioned by Mr. Damrosch to Cornelius N. Bliss...
...Dixie Handicap. Southern gentleman story, usual type. Beautiful daughter, race horse, no money. Young man saves race horse from rich enemies. Race horse wins $50,000 at Latonia. Young man wins daughter. Familiar; just a little better than usual...
...conquistadors. Slim young daredevils from the bullrings of Spain, they strike attitudes of high insolence before holiday crowds, exacting homage for a flick of a cloak and a deft, scornful sword-jab. They scoop in gold fortunes that would dwarf Pizarro's little pilferings. They laugh aloud at the rich sport of it. They wave gay adieux as they are feted to their ships...
...throes. Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust is but one among many appetites?for seething, hot colors; for the glare of white sun-light on torrid sand; for violent animal action; for full-throated screaming; for rich wine, amorous deviltries; and a swift, red death rather than a gray...