Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what was once the impish and diverting anti-U. S.-ism of M. Balieff has soured into an apparent U. S.-phobia. Two years ago in Paris, the attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...
...invention of "showersols," a practical device which no doubt will be patented by some one of the few spectators at Hot Water, which eventually brings her victory over janitorial and other diffi culties. ''Showersols" are collapsible umbrellas. A kind, rich friend of Duckie's takes to manufacturing them, thereby providing Duckie with wealth and a moral value for the play, which has little value of any other kind...
...than in the past, and there is reason to hope that there will be still further improvements in the future. This hope is to some measure reassuring, for otherwise with the rapidly increasing rate of depletion of our natural sources of supply and the increasing difficulty of finding new rich deposits as the area of unexplored regions gets smaller and smaller, we should be hard put to it before many decades to maintain the steady output of metals and oil needed for our industries...
...take the money and get the H--out," the other, "to play another tune." In spite of the apparent prosperity of his business, however, Joe denies that he is like other organ grinders who are reputed to own vast tracts of real estate. No, Joe is not a rich man,--so he says...
...large and of the first quality. Thanks to the efforts of Alexander Agassiz and others, its Polynesian collection, from the islands of the Pacific, is unusually large and full. The European collection, though far from complete, is the best in this country. In African ethnology we are extremely rich. Our Asian collection is small, and that from South America not large nor fully representative. These are holes in the collection which should be filled...