Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy, circulated the most absurd inventions to arouse the fighting spirit of our people. The cruelties attributed to the Germans were such as to curdle our blood. We heard the story of poor little Belgian children whose hands were cut off by the Huns. After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood for the children whose poor little hands had been cut off. He was unable to dis cover one. Mr. Lloyd George and myself, when at the head of the Italian...
Last week, brilliant, rich and potent Chinaman Sze received a cablegram at Washington where he has been Chinese Minister for eight years. At once socially popular Mme. Sze told her servants to pack?everything! Priceless bronzes, her own superb gowns, the first and second best Ming vases, and Dr. Sze's well-worn poker chips?everything...
Having died these four deaths urbanely -and being in fact still politically defunct last week-M. le Senateur Joseph Caillaux rode on through the blinding fog, trusting, as rich men will, to a harassed chauffeur who had been told to hurry...
Life is simple in the Venice of the South. It has an average population of 4,000. Nearly half, because few Americans will dive for sponges, are Greeks. Among them the trade is of immemorial antiquity and rich with legends, reaching back to the days when divers with burnished copper bodies gleaming in the sun of the Egean plunged to their deaths in quest of the finest, most deeply hidden sponges for the toilets of haughty Livia, or that Messalina whose luxuriance scandalized even imperial Rome...
...micropolities, had a new vigor, vim, elan last week. A Manhattan sociologist, George J. Hecht,* had, in flaying New York City for its sociological bumptiousness, mentioned many a modest U. S. city by very name and indicated the excellencies whereby it surpassed New York. Health, social service, education supplanted rich men, big buildings, great corporations in the train talk. It became possible to exuberate concerning...