Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate LaFollette. ". . . We all owe him a debt of gratitude for exposing the corruption that went on under the eyes of poor unseeing Mr. Harding. . . . He governed a state long and well. People still live in it and grow rich. Corporations do not flee from it. He has served many years in the Senate and no extreme proposal has come in with his name on it. ... He has never recognized the validity of 'the smile that wins.' . . . Diplomacy has always seemed to Mr. LaFollette something base, something akin to a surrender of principles. I do not think...
...that live no longer, he thinks simply. His telling is not confused with detail. Because he is kindly and brave, he tells wistfully and with honesty of emphasis, without false pity for dead glories nor false praise for ancient virtues. Being Irish and a mellow man, he tells with rich gusto and whimsy, so restrained that their bursts give pleasure like that of finding a wild bird's nest or bathing alone in the sea or fully remembering an old, old song...
...Even if a rich man's son retains his father's money he cannot know the best things of life...
PALLIETER ? Felix Timmermans ? Harper ($2.00). Bursting with healthy blood and full-blown appetites, Pallieter, simple, lighthearted Flemish farmer, wallows joyously in Life? snuffing its smells, slobbering over its flavors, smacking his thighs over its rich sensations. He swims naked at dawn in his river, cries over the beauties of sunsets and spring flowers, rides a huge mare bareback through a thunderstorm, rolls exulting in new snow on Christmas morning, devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it?covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke...
...economic resources of the Islands are inexpressibly and inexhaustibly rich. Indeed, they have what not only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...