Word: downtrodden
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...bylaws, reorganization plans, indentures, until he turns up a crop of legal weeds. Company officials are duly informed of irregularities. If they do not see fit to buy up his stock at a thumping good price, into the courts goes Old Man Venner, pleading the cause of a poor, downtrodden minority stockholder...
...There is every cause for rejoicing!" he cried. "This is a god-given opportunity that has come to me?to offer my life as a final sacrifice to the downtrodden...
...College. After one year, thanks to a relative who had more money than the other Thomases, he transferred to Princeton. Upon his graduation in 1905, he took a job as a settlement worker in the New York slums. It shattered most of his dreams about the nobility of the downtrodden. Upon the wreckage, amid the dirt and filth of Spring Street, he built up a practical philosophy about the masses which serves him to this day. In 1910 he married Frances Violet Stewart. Their honeymoon was spent on a tandem bicycle. Born to the Presbyterian Ministry, he went through Union...
...Manhattan Nov. 24. At its U. S. première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...
...Testa ment, Composer Berg has written music which critics unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like his leading character it is neither lofty nor noble but it effectively describes Wozzeck, like the Wozzeck in Georg Buchner's play (TIME, March 16), as any downtrodden wretch tortured beyond endurance. A per fect ending is the epilog in which Marie's little son hears the news from children in the street, goes on unconcernedly riding his hobby-horse...