Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a rich man's Mardigras on the Charles this week...
...bridges, China's peasants worked their land in immemorial rhythm. Across fields heavy with the smell of dung, water buffalo pulled ancient wooden plows. Civil war had hardly touched this part of China before. "We are a peace-loving, obedient people," said one old woman. "We are not rich. We want only to do our work. Will the Communists hurt...
John Franklin Goucher had the meager salary of a Methodist minister to live on, but the girl he had decided to marry happened to be rich. "Young man," her father demanded, "do you want to marry my daughter for her money?" "No, sir," replied Goucher, "but I certainly could find...
...personal life is not nearly so rich. Sensitive despite his brashness, he has been left deeply insecure and distrustful by his career as a child in a rough-&-tumble struggle. "The great want to conquer" has left him neither time nor depth for other interests, except the spectator sports and an occasional game of billiards. He goes almost everywhere with a bolstering entourage of yesmen, who run his errands and remind him at frequent intervals that he is terrific. In 1941 he married Showgirl Joyce Mathews, a striking blonde who got a Reno divorce six years later. Still friendly, they...
...Pictures; Variety Film) is a fair example, in a minor key, of a kind of film the British often do superbly: the movie which at once reveres and ribs British types and institutions. At its best, this kind of film, like the novels of Charles Dickens (see BOOKS), is rich in unabashed sentiment and meaty caricature...