Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government, of which he strongly disapproved, and to keep the tribal leaders in the provinces posted on the trend of events. He is extremely well-informed, intelligent, speaks seven languages. His influence over recent events was stated to have been great and, as he has powerful and rich friends abroad, it was not surprising that the provincial tribesmen elected him their political leader. He was also instrumental in getting Albania admitted to the League of Nations...
...chief, Lord Spencer, used to refer to him, was a man of staid Scotch qualities: intellectually honest, sober in all respects; a scholar of no mean repute, well-traveled and rich. His mind was practical. In Parliament he was formidable; in the country his speeches were direct, forceful and efficient; but he was no orator, and no man has ever rightly said of him that he was in any sense demagogic. He hated publicity and one of his favorite phrases was: "I don't think we need publish this urbi et orbi." His ability at quoting the classics was remarkable...
...four bathrooms." As a result, during one battling week at boarding school, Gaar's 16-year -old son "Blacky" was "elegant" and " commodious," and a boy from Hartford made "a ribald sketch of him looped through four bathtubs." He fought it all; but the goading sense of his new-rich family's vulgarity, he, being made of finer stuff, could not quite down...
...paved the way for an expansion of our exports. Cuba's consumption of American products now amounts to $44 per capita. The demand for American goods in other Central and South American countries, he declared, could be similarly increased as soon as American capitalists begin to develop the rich natural resources of these territories. Foreign trade, he stated, has become an economic necessity for this country, if our people are to continue in remunerative employment...
...Graduate School of Business Administration Edgar J. Rich '87 of Winchester, is to be lecturer on Transportation. Mr. Rich was attorney and general solicitor of the Boston and Maine railroad, and since 1915, in general practice, as counsel for various railways, has made a specialty of interstate commerce law, on which since 1908 he has been lecturing at Harvard...