Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With football commanding undergraduate attention, men who enter the news and editorial competitions for the CRIMSON next Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock will have ample opportunity to follow the most minute activities of Coach Harlow's teams on Soldiers Field. Seldom has Harvard presented such a wealth of interest as it does this fall when the final and smallest competitions for Juniors and Sophomores for the four boards of the paper get underway. Like Dick Harlow, Dr. Arlie Vernon Bock, the new health chief at the Hygiene Building, is giving the college a new deal in medicine...
...gained nothing from his very distinguished birth but the melancholy grace that marked his tall person, and long, slightly sheeplike face." In addition to the loss of his estates and honors, the revolution had cost the Prince his son, and most of his ambition. In 1814 his enormous wealth was restored to him and Sophie, whose influence was then uncertain, followed him to Paris, endured rebuffs and humiliations, waited, wrote cunning letters and cherished the one great stupid passion of her life-to be received at court. Slowly she ingratiated herself, devoting her tenacity, her resourcefulness, her frowsy full-blown...
...rage Sophie stupidly disclosed her deception to her husband and was expelled from court. She promptly set to work to get back in. Rebuffed by aristocrats who regarded her with loathing, she found an ally in Louis Philippe, then Duc d'Orleans, who wanted the Prince's wealth left to one of his sons. Brightest of Marjorie Bowen's witty characterizations is that of Louis Philippe, son of Egalite who during the revolution had voted for his own cousin's execution. Educated according to the principles of Rousseau, prudent, embarrassingly virtuous, Louis Philippe played a despicable...
...Louis Philippe on the throne. Prince de Condé, still surrounded by Sophie's brawny cousins and lovers, tried to flee the country, was discovered by Sophie and subsequently strangled in his bed. An investigation, establishing Sophie's guilt, was suppressed by the king. Sophie had her wealth, her entrée into society, but she was hissed in the theatre, snubbed on all sides, while her scandal nearly overthrew the government. She developed into a monstrous, muscular, scowling and ugly woman, adopted a daughter, lived ten years after the Prince's death, became extremely pious, doing...
...which almost all classes and degrees of Southerners-impoverished blue bloods, fox hunting pretenders, millhands, Negroes, intellectuals-are conscientiously fitted into the fictional picture. The result is somewhat reminiscent of an old-fashioned tableau, with symbolic figures representing Poverty lurking miserably on one side of the stage while heedless Wealth dances with frantic unconcern on the other. An imposing volume, beautifully bound and illustrated with five full-color reproductions of Artist Wight's portraits, South has much to recommend it: careful descriptions of characteristically lovely Southern scenery; sensitive evocations of feminine moods; a number of memorable conversations that...