Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rights in the Saar Valley or Basin, a rich coal region, were obtained by France from Germany for 15 years in compensation for the destruction of coal mines in northern France during the War. At the end of the 15 years (1934) a plebiscite* is to be held to decide whether the district is to be: 1) autonomous; 2) annexed by France; 3) reannexed by Germany...
...past master of the art of dramatizing the problems?social, legal, economic?of tangled modern life. His characters are in many cases vividly drawn, but in the main they are subordinate to the examination of the intricacies of the social structure. Peculiarly in a position to know the very rich and the very poor, together with the legal mechanism of their interrelationships, he has the knack of dragging dull facts out of the textbooks into moving existence...
...boys from boarding school go to college as a matter of course. It is the natural and supposedly necessary thing for the son of rich parents...
...ought to get rich by honorable Christian methods; and these are the only methods that sweep us quickly toward the goal of riches...
...Tosia Szcy-choviez, "beautiful Polish girl and shoe factory worker"; in Salem, Mass. Joseph Szcychoviez, "grizzled father of the bride," was alleged to have said to newspapermen: "I go to see such a wedding? I, of princely blood in Poland, turn up there to be patronized by the newly rich and betray my blood and breeding? Never!" He disapproved, "does not care for Mr. Felton." Married. Sir Basil Zaharoff, 74, "man of mystery of Europe," whose great wealth has armed armies, financed nations, shaped policies, to the Duchess of Marchena, relative of the Kings of Spain; at Chateau de Balincourt...