Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the island rich coffee and citrus crops were destroyed. All agriculture suffered. Communication, light and power systems were out of commission. The 600-foot towers at the Navy radio station were toppled. Water service was suspended and the population collected rain water from the heavy showers that fell continuously after the hurricane. The darkened streets were littered with debris...
...newspapers print concerning bitter-faced aviators who fly grimly across oceans and continents for glory or their mothers there should be no word of a flight which began last week at Stag Lane Airdrome, near London. Not an epic but an airy epigram, it told the story of a rich old man and a charming lady and soldier...
Harvard College greets the Class of 1932 into what is sure to be for both a rich and happy identity...
...aeronautical but has nothing to do with the 1914-18 shellfire; its cast includes Louise Dresser, who was in two Manhattan cinema openings last week (see A Ship Comes In.) Miss Dresser may be depended upon when she assumes a mother role. She looks not unlike Irene Rich and shares with her the distinction of most able protagonist of domesticity among cinemactresses. As the mother of Buddy Blake, aviator-aspirant, Louise Dresser is properly maternal when her son fails to pass a test, is properly proud when he does pass as a hero...
Father d'Astier was this intelligent pragmatist, who never would have bothered to explain but for his exasperation that the stupid dolt was his son (illegitimate of course). He himself, suave, charming, had devoted his career to the greater need of the Church, and converted to Catholicism the rich and the powerful...