Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth, signed at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1905, Russia ceded a southern portion of the island to Japan. That was part of the price paid by Russia for losing the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Now Sakhalin, or Karafuto, is rich in alluvial gold and coal deposits. Its surface is covered by vast forests of larch and fir trees. Large tracts of land arc fit for pasturage and agriculture, and there is oil, as Oil Shah Harry F. Sinclair could testify. The climatic conditions are on the whole excellent, and are comparable...
...Frank W. Stearns, Boston business man, whose hobby is politics. Next, the President chose C. Bascom Slemp as his Secretary. Slemp is a man whose element is politics. His assistance was as necessary to the newly-made President as the assistance of a social secretary is to a newly-rich woman. With the approach of the pre-Convention campaign, Mr. Coolidge selected (by and with the advice and consent of Mr. Stearns) William M. Butler to be his manager. Butler is a man amphibious both as to politics and business...
...cobra and the face of six or seven madonnas." This generosity in the matter of faces seems somewhat needless, for she could wreak enough havoc with one. Her actions are at times reminiscent of Cytherea. Thus: "Tony [a youth] drew Angela to him, murmuring huskily. Her eyes were rich with invitation and desire. She resisted him, not only with her white arms, but with all her will, crying softly: 'Don't, Tony! Oh don't, dear boy!' But she was a gardenia, soft and lush and pale-not a very suitable flower when it came...
...success of my publications in other cities [Boston and Lynn] has convinced me that a newspaper can find a field in any city if that newspaper loyally serves the plain people. There are two many organs of class, too many highbrow journals concerned only with the vagaries of the rich, and there are too few newspapers telling of the hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows, of the plain people...
...Significance. The plot is not the thing, in any event. It is the way of its telling that makes this novel unique. In oddly blurred, yet impossibly vivid, shimmering sentences, this rich ambling becomes an absorbing tale. In what its author calls "a romance of bad manners," he has sketched those nebulous days just after the Civil war, for our contemporary gaze...