Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peter Klockner, formerly a Lorraine magnate. He is still immensely rich and has large interests in many . iron foundries and machine factories...
...chief valet grows rich on his master's whimsical extravagance. Receiving a salary of only $1,500, he is able to make ends meet by selling the King's cast-off suitings...
...Mexico, Obregon was threatened from front and rear. There were the "reactionaries"-old Spanish landlords who resented the new ideas of liberty, corrupt officials, the rich Catholic Church. On the other side were red radicals so drunk with revolution that there seemed to be no chance of getting them sober before they set the house on fire...
...failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks he is President, the dream-mechanism of The Poor Little Rich Girl and A Kiss for Cinderella is employed to satirize government by Babbittry...
...Rankin Towse: " Rich, costly, gorgeous but . . . not satisfactory...