Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rich men first, then poor men in thankful thousands, flocked to the southeastern U. S. and made it a sanitorium, then a playground. Financial vicissitudes naturally resulted from the influx of people ready to spend money freely for on those dearest objects of life-health and fun. Violent hurricanes came, too, to interrupt the development of a winter paradise. But now the crazy land-booms have subsided. The damage of the latest hurricanes is repaired and future damage provided against more carefully. The visits this year of the country's two leading figures, the outgoing Coolidge and the incoming...
...comes to Islip, Noke, the grand sweep of Otmoor, and the leafy vale of the Thame. Going north from Oxford, one can visit Woodstock and stately Blenheim; or, if one is awed by this great place, one can turn a little to the west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode. Following the winding roads and hedges, now crossing streams, now going through woods, seeing here a country house, there a little village, and perhaps a hunt in progress with Master, followers, and hounds hard on the heels of a fox, one senses again...
...glorious days of brilliant sunshine during the Hillary Term at Lent gladden the winter-worn spirits of Oxford freshmen, and for the first time the promise of beauty seems near to realization. For it is in Trinity Term that Oxford blooms with unbelievable richness. She is most easily appreciated then set in the rich green of meadows and fields by two beautiful rivers, now covered with punts and canoes; old trees line the roads and walks, the air is sweet and clear and fresh, and the Colleges sparkle in the sunshine. It is now that one knows the High...
Less panoramic than Black April, and therefore the less powerful, Author Peterkin's present volume is nevertheless a compelling story of human character in elemental contact with love, growth, death. Rich in pathos, it also sparkles with the amusing antics, and ridiculous superstitions of the primitive race...
PILGRIMS OF ADVERSITY-William McFee-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The only American to be mentioned in the same breath with Joseph Conrad writes a long, rich novel of the Caribbean...