Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero of the day was a young German named Henry Villard, war correspondent for the New York Tribune. After the war she married him. Chance made him the representative of some bondholders in Western railroads. Brains and force made him president of the Northern Pacific Railroad and a rich...
Pleased was the venerable statesman's much younger wife, the onetime Miss Helena Schilizzi of London, ambitious, vivacious heiress of a rich Greek. She, rumors told, supplies the motivation for her husband's latest grasp at Power...
...Hopping, ten to eight. They played good polo. They knew that some fast young men from the Argentine were watching them, and that these Argentinians are going to be dangerous opponents in the International Cup matches in September. The captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder of ponies, horses, cattle. Then there is Lewis L. Lacey, a ten-handicap player, blue-eyed, slight of frame, five and a half feet tall, one of the grandest poloists in the world. He made famous the hit in midair, and it became known as a "Lacey." His appearance...
...with the French Revolutionists' declaration of the Rights of Man, the black slaves of Haiti, in all consistency, revolted against their masters-rich Creoles, and supercilious whites. A slave born of slave parents, Pierre-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, First of the Blacks, established in 1801 an independent constitution. He was well under way with a promising period of reconstruction when Napoleon took time to consider his refractory colonies. A swift intelligent military campaign subdued Toussaint's able generals. Toussaint himself was taken unscrupulously by ruse, and imprisoned in France-to be mourned in lines by Wordsworth...
...Rich and varied was the aeronautical menu. Detroit offered something sure to please guests of every age and every turn of mind, commercial, military, technical, sporting, juvenile...