Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anne pressed her body to the raw, rich earth...
Nine of the ten pegs went to college (Harvard, 2; Michigan, 2; Yale, Pittsburgh, Coe, Minnesota, Stanford, one each). Three pegs have done military service. One peg is immensely rich; two pegs are rich; the rest, well-to-do. The pegs' geographical centre is further west than in any previous cabinet-Far West, 1; Midwest, 5: East, 3; New England...
...Dutchman from Utrecht, and you read something in the Utrechtsch Provinciaal en Stedelijk Dagblad, you know it must be true. Last week this leading provincial newspaper of the Netherlands shocked the rich burghers of quaint old Utrecht-and shocked Europe-by chargin, that a most nefarious secret military agreement was entered into on July 7, 1927, by France and Belgium (with Great Britain sitting in) and is still in force...
...champagne toasts to the British Industries Fair, which would open next day in London. But no sooner had Edward of Wales risen and begun to speak, than the Tycoons realized with an unpleasant shock that they were in for one of the most thoroughgoing rebukes ever administered to rich old men by a young heir apparent...
Author Dimnet tells of the obstacles and the helps to thinking in a style that is as informal as it is polished and rich in literary background. One of his favorite devices is to hold thought-conversations between himself and his reader-of-the-moment...