Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elisha Lee was a large black English Negro. His big soft tenor voice made him rich, enabled him to smoke fat cigars, wear silk socks, fur overcoats, diamond rings, roses. But Elisha Lee was lonely, both as animal and artist. He wanted a white woman to love him. And when he obtained pretty Ownie Tremlett for his wife it was only because she could not resist vulgar luxury in the face of frowsy widowhood in Brighton. They soon hated each other bitterly and a weakling mulatto baby was the core of their hate. Lee drank and died. Ownie reverted...
...matter for self congratulation on the part of many of us who are interested in the drama that, although we have lost Professor Baker and the Workshop, there seem to be no available means for turning over the Harvard Dramatic Club and its increasingly rich traditions to some more discerning institution. Like the Workshop the Dramatic Club has in the last few years built up an enviable reputation for serious artistic performance, and now, and apparently for some time to come, it will have to be the main resource of members of the University who are interested in this most...
...tale is all simplicity. Hans and Inga, young and virtually without food or money, marry. They raise potatoes. Raiders seize the crop. They save a little money to buy beef and find the price has abruptly jumped beyond them. Sausage, presented by a rich American, they lose. Hand in hand at the end they are still happy. "Isn't Life Wonderful!" cry they. Neil Hamilton and Carol Dempster (cf. America) have the parts. So telling are their portraits that the director must be further commended. As postscript to this tribute must be added the opinion that the film will...
...used for the construction of a branch of that institution "in which all of the beds are to be devoted to the care of persons of the middle class." It has been found that under present conditions in medicine the best medical attention is secured by the rich who are able to command the best type of service, and by the poor to whom such service is frequently given gratis...
...never thought the greatness of real America lay in her material wealth nor her physical strength. There were many rich and powerful countries in ancient times, but they are all gone. They were as transitory as the great clouds that traverse their sepulchres. A permanent greatness is only seen in sublimity of spirit manifested in enduring forms of beauty and power, Japan's ambition has always been to attain a height of spiritual serenity. Japan looked and still looks to America as the torchbearer of Western civilization, of the emancipation of humanity and the brotherhood of man. Will Japan...