Word: riche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 24 hours, the hurricane winds flailed nearly a fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a boy who drowned off Miami trying to save his sailboat...
...seventh child of a rich silk merchant, Van Dyck was an artist at 16, with his own studio and students. He did fine, for Antwerp rattled with commerce and bulged with gold; and its beefy, bearded burghers all wanted portraits of themselves and their wives. But the aristocratic little portraitist was far from satisfied with his own work. At 19 he got admittance to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke, and at 20 went back to school, at Rubens' feet...
...Dyck made a trip to London, where he was ignored, and then circled down to Italy, where he found new old masters whose work taught him as much as Rubens' had: Titian and Veronese. Their paintings strengthened his like a blood transfusion, flooding his pictures with dark, rich colors and dignifying their shadowed backgrounds with glimpses of formal gardens, pillars and balustrades. With his liveried servants and coach & four, Van Dyck earned nothing but sneers from Rome's bohemian painters. But his manners as well as his brush charmed...
...wide-lensed look at U.S. small-city life in the first two decades of this century treats the reader to some shrewd but merely surface revelations. Readers will not be surprised to learn that Fort Penn politicians made shady deals and occasionally put figureheads in office, or that its rich were snobs and its newly rich social climbers. What may surprise them is that Novelist O'Hara documents these commonplace facts of life with so many tedious and often pointless instances...
Seldom has a novelist made his borrowings more his own. Beale's dry notation that somebody had once tasted whale's milk and found it rich, Melville turned into "The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries." From Beale's remark that "we cannot fail to be impressed with a truly magnificent idea of the profusion of animal life which must necessarily exist in the ocean's depths," Melville constructed a passage for those who like philosophical meat on their narrative bones...