Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice of the Dramatic Club for the last few years has fallen upon the colorful and exotic. Beyond the chance that this offers for rich presentation, it has led to sensationalism and the rewards which sensationalism brings. The desire to do things in a big way has brought professional sideshows whose performers have been billed in type several points larger than the Harvard Dramatic Club itself. The attractiveness of this program has been registered at the box office too often to be doubted...
Among Frenchmen the familiar U. S. paradox of a rich man "dry as a matter of business" but socially wringing wet is significantly turned inside out by Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy. "As a matter of business" M. Hennessy spends millions to extol the virtues of "***Hennessy," probably the best of large production brandies. Mixed with equal parts of Italian Vermuth, famed "***Hennessy" becomes the surprising and delicious "Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English...
...back and forth, last week, between the pandemonium of their offices and the grim, still Prison St. Lazare. Caged there sat a tremendously dynamic and even fascinating new prisoner. What she is charged with doing may well rank her with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people...
...lying nakedly asprawl on his hill for sunbaths, make his Connecticut neighbors view "that c'toonist" with some alarm. They are reassured, though somewhat puzzled by his deep vein of quizzical, kindly humor. His life has been most unconventional, they feel, but they know it has been rich and gentle...
MONEY FOR NOTHING-P. G. Wode-house-Double day, Dor an ($2). Funny as ever, Wodehouse embroils in disarming foolishness a U. S. senator who therefore sells oil stocks, a fat rich man who nevertheless gets pinioned at dawn on a windowsill, and others still...