Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rich Old Man was the celebrated Harry Gordon Selfridge who, as everyone knows, worked his way up through Marshall Field's Chicago department store before leaving the U. S. and setting himself up in England with a huge store of the same kind, a huge house in the centre of London, four children, and many dear friends, among whom the Dolly sisters are surely the most intimate...
Among the rich old man's four children, is the onetime Violet Selfridge, who is now the Vicomtesse de Sibour...
Jacques de Sibour was an ace and a great ace in the War, a fact which not everyone knows who knows Jacques de Sibour. On marrying Violet Selfridge it became necessary for him to go to work in the Selfridge store for the rich old man. Thus Jacques de Sibour and his wife lived in Lansdowne House, the grand and picture-filled castle in the centre of London. When Jacques got a two weeks holiday, they toured all about the Mediterranean in a tiny airplane. When they were granted a longer vacation they flew to Abyssinia and built a house...
...Anglo-French military-naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13). Everyone now knows that the existence of the agreement was revealed through an incredibly stupid British blunder; and a further piece of British folly has been to keep the text dark after the fact of its existence leaked. Passion tinged the rich tones of Briand's voice as he cried: "France and Great Britain have been working together for the peace of the world, and have been singularly unfortunate...
...John Pybus, who had never understood his sons, disowned them for slacking during the War. But that war made them rich, and him so poor that he had to sell his musty bookshop and take a job finally as porter in a suburban hotel. Here his grandson, Lance, discovers him, white-haired, philosophic, feeding clouds of friendly pigeons. Lance, gentleman bred, chafed at his parents' flashy new-wealth, scorned his father for concealing the identity of his grandfather. Skipping a generation, Lance brought to understanding old Pybus all his young troubles−mixup with a London tart, throes...