Word: mite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass and in all ways annoy one's acquaintances...
...widow's mite was the $10,000,000 which Manhattan's Edward Stephen Harkness gave to British charity (TIME, Oct. 6. 1930). This gift caused George V and Queen Mary to receive Mr. and Mrs. Harkness tête-a-tête (TIME, June 22). Last week at a luncheon in the Great Giver's honor Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England...
...Lang is the sort of man who would rather have a pious widow's mite than $10,000,000 not given in the proper spirit. The Archbishop would live meanly among the poor, were he not obliged to live sumptuously at Lambeth Palace. The Primate would sail to Jerusalem in a fishing smack like St. Peter's, did not J. P. Morgan insist upon taking him there on the Corsair (TIME, March...
...sorry appearance of Nanking Theological Seminary astounds the U. S. visitor who has given his mite to Chinese missions. The Seminary consists of five squat buildings on a drab 20-acre campus. Only furnishings are the scant necessities of Chinese existence. But the 46 students (all natives) embellish their lives with potted plants which they carry around the buildings as the sun moves across the heavens...
...friend of Lord Reading-reported that India's states were not yet ready to become a federated union, and that the power of His Majesty's Viceroy must remain unhampered and supreme. The only important concessions recommended by the Simon Report had to do with granting a mite more freedom to the provincial governments in British India (TIME, June...