Word: riche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like his father before him, George Berham Parr, 47, is the political boss of oil-rich Duval County, in the southernmost appendix of Texas. He is also a banker, beer baron, oil promoter and lawyer. He went to jail for Federal income-tax evasion in 1936. After he got out, one year later, he began again to stretch his grip beyond his small core of about 5,000 Mexican-American voters in Duval to take in the Democratic machines of several neighboring counties...
What was unquestionably new and, in 20th Century terms, indisputably luxurious was the glittering brilliance of stainless steel and mirrors, rich fabrics and fluorescent lighting...
Wars, dynasties and governments come and go, but China's ancient agrarian moon festival goes on forever. Along the paddy walls of the countryside and through teeming lanes of towns, rich & poor alike gathered last week for family reunions and celebrations...
Here's something that's universal. One-hundred percent of you will have ice cream for dessert about eleven times a week. It's because a rich alumnus established a fund for buying ice cream once upon a time. (This really happened, I'm told). At any rate, it's usually deliciously flavorsome and creamy rich...
...young Yale professor had an immediate success with a first novel, The Asiatics. Frederic Prokosch had written a story so flamboyantly adventurous and so rich in pure writing talent that to carp at its philosophical maunderings seemed petty. Wrote Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann: "I count it among the most brilliant and original achievements of the young literary generation." The trouble is that Prokosch has gone on writing variants of the same book for 13 years. His latest is Storm and Echo, like The Asiatics, a blend of far places, strange and terrible events, and a murky, anguished, generally unsuccessful search...