Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which, being interpreted, is rather funny than otherwise; for there is no writer more thoroughly youthful, there is no writer more thoroughly human than the author of A Certain Rich Man. "I'd rather be young than right," he added; but this was only after he had postulated that "Youth is always right." And this, of course, with the well known humorous twinkle in his eye. A kindly man, a wise man, a man whose heart and abilities have always been devoted to the liberalism of America, who sits in his editorial chair at Emporia and exerts increasing influence...
...knew enough of human nature to know that there was greed, jealousy, immorality and selfishness among all. ... "If you go around the world thinking everybody is greedy and a liar, look into your own heart first." Later on she remarked that "they (the Labor Party) say: 'Tax the rich.' Well, the rich are being taxed, alive and dead, and it's quite right. One reason why death duties are better than a capital levy is that all the millionaires don't die at once." To this a heckler demanded: "What will you do when...
Heywood Broun: "There was the temptation to say that In the Next Room was an excellent play for the wife of a rich man to have written. All of which may serve to cloud, a little, the fact that In The Next Room is one of the most competent and interesting melodramas which the American stage has known...
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet: "On being notified that the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature ( ?7,500) had been awarded to me, I was reported to have said: 'If it is small, we (my wife and I) will spend it and be rich. If it is large, we will invest it and be sub-stantial...
...failure at 58, is now, ten years later, one of the most sought-after ceramic artists in America. He lives frugally in a simple shack in the North Carolina mountains, does his own work except for a clay-boy and a horse to turn his mixing-wheel. From the rich mineral clay of the region he shapes and bakes vases and bowls of exquisite pattern and myriad hues-rose, amber, mahogany, violet, sang de boeuf. Some of his types, known as "Omar Khayyam vases," command high prices from connoisseurs. No two of his pieces are alike...