Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly a "surprise". But so long as the American political machine is capable of producing nothing more interesting than its present output, the great American public will have to get its excitement from Russian revolutions. Nevertheless, this method of America's is probably the very best way to get rich, for revolutions and political kaleidoscopes cost much money. Perhaps this is why the Coolidge administration--such as it is has proved so popular...
...Story. Percy Bysshe Shelley, scion of a rich Whig family, first went to Eton. He was "exceptionally beautiful, with brilliant blue eyes, dark curling hair and a delicate complexion." The brutal Vita Etonica shocked his sensitive mind and he was glad to move on to the freedom of Oxford...
Continuing, he said: "Civilization can be measured by the advance of medicine. King Tut's tomb has revealed a civilization as rich as ours in every way but one?medicine. Since then we have divorced religion from the cure of the sick, although some people still think they can pray to God to make them well and then fold their hands and wait to be cured...
LAST ESSAYS OF MAURICE HEWLETT ?Scribner ($2.50). That rare combination of quiet humor and penetrating wisdom which was Hewlett in his earlier years, grew with the man into a rich, mellowed roundness, here shown at its smooth and polished best. The quiet of the little Wiltshire village where he spent his latter days seems to have crept into his writing, giving it a leisured charm which recalls the 18th Century essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that...
These essays are replete with the lifetime's rich garnerings of a keen and cultured mind, and the kindly shadows of Sterne, Goldsmith, Horace Walpole seem to fall more than once across their pages...