Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fund, and friends will be none the wiser. But it will be proportionately difficult to silence that bothersome conscience, which demands that we help to make spare hours of our soldiers a time in which they can better themselves. There are not many of us who are too poor to padlock our purses to such an extent that we cannot say we helped establish these libraries...
Gave Homes to Poor Boys...
...addition to his fame as an athlete and his prominent place in College life, Mr. Wendell was widely known as a philanthropist. He organized clubs for the poor boys of New York City and in many cases found homes for the more promising in various parts of the country. He was one of the pioneers in helping the boys of the slums to better citizenship by giving them a chance to grow up in an out of doors atmosphere. He was also interested in such organizations as the Society for Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, the George Junior Republic...
...terrible to him who meets it bravely, wisely and in the strength of his youth. It is always terrible to the coward, the weakling and the fool. Yet, by the very inverse reason, for those who remain the death of a brave man is tragic beyond the poor power of words...
...laugh heartily or sigh and pray to some god to put us on that steamer. The ankle in question is at all times lovely, and it is the most prominent part of the rather confused plot, for by the treatment of a sprain suffered by this same ankle, a poor but attractive doctor secures a means of livelihood a series of adventures, and a charming wife. For, you see, sometimes a little ankle has great potentiality...