Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, so brilliant as a musical comedian. Unendowed with the impish attributes of a clown, his efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous "Poor Little Rich Girl" he stirred his audience to transports similar to those he used to arouse in "The Vortex." Entitled "Dance, Little Lady," it was quite a grisly warning to the black-bottomers...
...bald, rich Joseph Caillaux, onetime Prime Minister (1911-12) master intriguer among the Left Parties. Torpedoist Caillaux sank the Sacred Union by forcing four of its members, including Edouard Herriot, to resign in obedience to a caucus of their own party, stampeded by Demagog Caillaux...
Mascali was most certainly the town which first would be obliterated. Here young peasant maids crossed themselves, paused a moment at the churches. Grandmothers, rich in ancient lore, retold tales. Enceladus, the Titan, was buried under Etna when he had dared to defy Zeus. Now and again he stirred in discomfort or anger. Hephaestus, god of fire and the metallic arts, had a smithy in Etna. He was fashioning terrible Olympian swords which his journeymen, the Cyclops, would deliver...
...occurred in Manhattan last week a party which partially answered both questions. The party was given to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their partnership, by the firm of Delano and Aldrich, architects, to their clients. Since Delano and Aldrich are architects who have made the kind of houses which rich people like to live in, their clients came to the party gratefully and bearing gifts; Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow sent by airplane from Mexico two silver bowls...
...child of the rich may enter the school. But many a half pagan urchin, wont to roam wildly in the Georgia hills, has been received. There are 7,000 names on the alumni list of the Berry Schools...