Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nursery-the Drawing Room-was matched for signs of improvement over Outside breeds. His childhood he remembers as a happy time, clouded only with infrequent "criticisms." Meals were tasty and generous, the Bible was made a friendly, interesting book; the spacious brick Mansion House, the workshops and farm were rich exploring grounds, the grown-ups gave Gilbert & Sullivan operas, the children felt important doing part-time work making trap chains. It was not until he was 6 or 7 that he got a taste of Outside opinion from town boys who called them "Christ boys'' and "bastards...
...save himself and his son from starvation, a poor man leases his wife for three years to a childless rich man. She fulfills the contract, bears the rich man a son, then returns to her poverty, her heart torn between her two children...
...Murder in the Cathedral", while leaving one a little confused over its general aim and import, at the same time delights through the rich variety of its mingled intellectual, poetic, and dramatic offerings. The theme is that of a proud man. Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking and winning martyrdom. But interlarded with this central stuff are a chorus of sombre monks and another of wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious...
Feeling that after all literary men should stick together, the editors of the CRIMSON extended more than the right hand of friendship last night when they lent the Lampoon a 50 pound punch bowl to help the funnymen celebrate their 60th anniversary. Not rich enough to rent one, Lampy at long last prevailed on the CRIMSON men to lend them the sacred punch bowl which has adorned the Plympton Street Sanctum these many years...
...Bordens were not a happy family. Lizzie and her older sister (who was visiting friends at the time of the murders) resented their stepmother, kept to themselves as much as possible in the front of the house. By Fall River standards of those days, Mr. Borden was a rich man. Two days before the inquest, Lizzie burned up a dress. Her testimony at the inquest-she was never put on the stand during her trial-was contradictory on some points, evasive on others. Nevertheless, since there was only circumstantial evidence against her, she was acquitted. The trial...