Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especial appeal to school teachers and educators in general. Invitations have been sent to every educator in Greater Boston. Professor Mearns emphasizes that his lecture is not only for teachers, but for parents as well, as he wants to explain how it is possible to get "from youth a richer product than is commonly obtained, and to give ample illustration of that product...
...world is richer by one fresh group of emotions or ideas by the one man more aware of what goes on within and about...
Simon Patino started life 59 years ago. Aged 28 (when he was an insignificant storekeeper), he raised the enormous fortune of $18,000 to buy a tin mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...
...Charming People and The Green Hat. He has a gesture of romance, even in the accident of birth. Is it not strange that so many foreigners bring to the English lan- guage a style that, while thoroughly English, has a touch of color in world-grouping that makes it richer than much purely native writing? Arlen was born on the Danube and moved to England when he was quite young. He went to school fitfully, was educated partly in Switzerland, came back to London and was exceedingly gay. He danced, dined, traveled and indulged in some quiet writing. That...
...GARDEN OF FOLLY-Stephen Leacock-Dodd Mead ($2.00). Stephen Leacock, Harold Lloyd of Letters, prefaces this volume with a quotation from Confucius-or TutankhAmen : "This poor old world works hard and gets no richer; worries much and gets no happier. It casts off old errors to take on new ones; laughs over ancient superstitions and shivers over modern ones. It is at best but a Garden of Follies, whose chattering gardeners move a moment among the flowers, waiting for the sunset...