Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idle rich are but a few grains of sugar, sprinkled over the neck of a burning, smoldering volcano." STAGIRITUS...
...dislikes in common, but the object of their most violent hatred is the man who tells them the unsavory truth about themselves. In a play now appearing in Boston, the hero, a New York minister who says what he thinks; is ejected from office for his attitude towards his rich parishioners. Needless to say the latters' guilty consciences are responsible for the deed, but the chances are, even if his enemies were as innocent as they pretend to be, that he would have been expelled in any case. No man likes to be slandered, truthfully or otherwise...
...recent student conference at Hartsdale, New York, which dealt mainly with the financial aspects and responsibilities of the colleges, would furnish tests for several young dissertations. One of the two chief topics of the report is the problem of restrictions on freedom of learning, caused by the influence of rich and reactionary alumni whose financial aid is necessary...
...confiscated for the benefit of the Government; and the English Government is greatly in need of assistance, because of bonuces to the unemployed, providing homes for the homeless, and subsidies for reducing the price of food. The old way was for a mob to appear in front of a rich man's house, set it on fire, and shoot him as he ran out. Then the rioters looted the place, and carried off such of the rich man's property as was not hurned. The new way known as Constructive Thought is very much better it is being used...
...musical setting as given it by the Chicago orchestra, and the color put into it by the leading singers, made it a work of beauty. Miss Garden's medium voice sounded shop-worn, but above and below it was rich--and much could have been forgiven in return for the impressive manner in which she dominated each situation. The figure of Flora, scarlet-clad, waving to her departing husband from the battlements, is memorable, and the ensuing struggle with Archibaldo before he kills her, is a most impressive climax. M. Baklanoff, as Manfredo, outdid his comrades with a smooth...