Word: doling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts. She is on the dole now-a charge upon the Government- but when the Bureau has dealt with the warts she should soon win back her profitable trade. Recalling that Berlin has a standing idle army of some 200,000 unemployed, Dr. Gumpert cried: "Look at them! How many are ugly-needlessly! Thousands will have...
...percent of our property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress as England's "Dole" receivers. If left to ourselves I really believe we can work out these problems. But every worker amongst us is soon discouraged at seeing a truckload of five husky young men drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their...
Families. Judd is but one of several dominant names in Hawaii. Other U. S. missionaries had descendants who have maintained the Islands' spirit and tradition in an extraordinary way while growing rich in sugar and other trade. The most widely advertised name today, that of James D. ("Jim") Dole, belongs to a second cousin of First Governor Dole. "Jim" Dole did not reach the Islands until 1899 to make his fortune in pineapples and become a headliner by giving prizes for trans-Pacific aviation. Other famed Hawaiian names are Alexander, Baldwin, Castle, Cooke (not descendants of Captain Cook), Dillingham, Thurston...
...well, he isn't. Life insurance agents have not added the 100 billionth part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole out small portions of the total to their subscribers and let the surplus accumulate. W. BLENKO...
...every platform in England that their Conservative opponents have "gagged" H. R. H. The deplorable process of dragging the Crown into the election was even begun in the House of Commons, when Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard Bury, M. P. [Conservative] insinuated that some* miners prefer living on the dole to work, a chorus of Laborites shouted: "Liar! Sit down! You have insulted the heir to the throne...