Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. "It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope. . . . We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor...
Even so. when the Ohio rushed down on Cairo, Ill. at the junction of the Mississippi with 57 ft. of water, almost a foot above the record level, Army engineers decided to use force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres...
...farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria, Ill. for the 18th National Pigeon Show, most important of the half dozen major pigeon fiestas held in the U. S. each year. First event of the show was nose drops. Because pigeons are susceptible to influenza, their owners dose them before big shows with cod-liver oil for prevention, Epsom...
...melodrama, well worthy of comparison with Director Ford's 1935 contribution to the same subject, The Informer. Theme of the 0'Casey version of the play is the tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics. In RKO's The Plough and the Stars the theme is the considerably less specialized one of conflict between love and patriotism. Jack Clitheroe (Preston Foster) and his wife Nora (Barbara Stanwyck) are assing in the park when he is summoned to his post as commandant...
...poor taste," said she, "and might cause ill feelings on the part of British visitors to the capital city of California...