Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward the moving pictures indicates that Occidentalism is growing faster than the world has been led to suspect. Whether this latest development is due to the efforts of Kemal, of whether it is the result of clever work by American film producers, who see in the Near East a rich and fertile pasture, is impossible to say. As Kemal is known for his liking for everything American, however, the credit may as well...
...adding sardonic "ha-has" to show the kind of dog he is. This garden he cultivates with money, which ha describes as "a most powerful fertiliser," apparently forgetting that money has no smell. One of his mermaid myrmidons flees and takes shelter on the noble bosom of a rival rich man. When they return from their honeymoon, the villain hounds her at a dinner so that she misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along, but has kept silence in order to learn the identity...
...want to see either rich or poor escape taxation," Mr. H. C. Pell '05 said last night, "but I want to see the pinch equally applied. Ninety percent of the corruption in American politics is the direct result of the rotten taxes and tariffs enforced by the Republicans. As a nation, we are now envied by all, liked by a few and hated by a few, but if we continue in our present policy as regards the tariff, we will be distrusted...
...discussing Prohibition, Mr. Pell committed himself, as he did in Congress against the Volstead Act. "Its faults lie in that it is applied to the poor and not to the rich and that it has no weight of public opinion behind it. If a burglar should walk through the Yard, you fellows would look on him with dislike and horror. But do you shun a bootlegger, when he breaks the law as much as the burglar does...
...demands some explanation. There have been many good pictures since "The Birth of a Nation"; there have been a few excellent ones; but not until "The Thief of Bagdad" has there been one that could be considered quite its equal. Half a dozen pictures might be mentioned which are rich in historical interest or beautiful in pictorial setting, but none of them have had the charming romance and clean humor which lift "The Thief of Bagdad" above lesser productions...