Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Equality of opportunity is the right of every American-rich or poor, foreign or native-born, irrespective of faith or color...
Millions of not-over-rich travelers have sat up all night when crossing France, rather than pay the exorbitant charge for First Class sleeping berths, there having been no seconds. Last week, for the first time, second class sleepers ran from Paris to the principal frontiers and to Marseilles. But in Scandinavia and Germany there are even third class sleepers, not yet to be found in France, Spain, Italy, Balkans. Citizens of the U. S. could have similarly cheap sleeps, en route, were they not democratically unwilling to lie down in a class inferior to "Pullman." Russians have got round...
Last week the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein, rich and smart "career diplomat," and U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, was accorded every mark of respect as it wheeled into the courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. Alighting briskly suave Mr. Einstein stepped within and soon deposited a formal demand from the U.S. State Department that the annual quota set upon U. S. motor cars imported into Czechoslovakia shall be raised this year by a cool...
...Einstein limousine purred down Prague's hill, many a non-Semite looked with envious eye. Well known is the fact that the U.S. Minister's rich father (wool) cut him off with $125,000 when he married his present spouse, because she had been twice before a wife. But later a rich sister placed at Son Einstein's disposal for life an income of $20,000 per year. In the opinion of William Jennings Bryan the present Mrs. Einstein became a distinct adornment to the diplomatic personnel, and deserved all praise for remaining in Constantinople with...
...Significance. In consciously picturesque manner, Author Prezzolini quickens hazy impressions of the man Machiavelli, details a rather commonplace life in a rich setting of mediaeval Florence, declares nothing too trivial to report of so great a man. But the essence of that greatness, to wit, the political theory which influenced Napoleon, Mussolini, remains unanalyzed but for the textbook generalities...