Word: riche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening of the oyster season, but it rang for few Britons. In the days of Charles Dickens oysters cost a penny a dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
...Fishing." Tito ordered his personal physician, Dr. Popovic, and his permanent companion, General Zezelj, to take me sightseeing. We toured in a brand-new Mercury. I remember that in Brioni's prewar days, the rich international set were permitted to use only bicycles...
...certainly the most photogenic (see cut). In the rugged, wind-torn Montelepre zone that stretches behind Sicily's lush Palermo plain, Giuliano has carved out his realm. In six years, the police say, he and his band have killed more than 200 people, kidnaped scores of wealthy latifondisti (rich landowners) and made an estimated $2,000,000 in ransom. Time & again, the Italian government has sent entire companies of carabinieri to capture him. Each time the hills above Montelepre and the undernourished, goatskin-gaitered Montelepre peasants have refused to give him up. Hundreds have been arrested for aiding...
More, he rescues a rich maiden from pirates in the Mediterranean, marries her and comes home in triumph to tell his dominating mamma where she can get off. Sir William and Despina didn't live ever after, but they did live for quite a while and got along fine. To readers who know 41-year-old Osbert Lancaster's irreverent books on English architecture and his tartly urbane Classical Landscape with
...Gregory marriage was the death of F.D.R. John Gregory, for ten years a devoted New Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split the blame between the President and her husband, who had refused...