Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kindhearted Britons at once began, sending him bagfuls of coal, jugs of home-made wine, baskets of greens and even unused postage stamps with which to keep His Majesty's correspondence going. "I am a poor man, yes!" Haile Selassie told Miss Steedman to tell the world, "but I am not an object of charity. Such undignified gifts as these should be sent to the Abyssinia Association for the relief of refugees...
...Admiralty have already expressed sharp opinions on this point. A more fundamental obstacle is the doubt whether Germany's ambitions, which are predominantly for Teutonic unity and supremacy in Eastern Europe, can be permanently satisfied by stretches of jungle. In Mein Kampf Hitler puts his colonial aims as a poor second to the hopes of a Pan-Germanic Central Europe. During the negotiations Mussolini also will be working strenuously against Germany's selling her birthright for a mess of fever-ridden desert, for his desires for an Italianate Central Europe rest on the with-drawal of France and England behind...
...poor Junior who had one eye on a degree in Economics and the other on a Hockey letter found after two weeks of experience that he could not attend a 2 o'clock lecture and 2:30 o'clock practice at the same time. After suffering ill words from both sides until a point beyond which lay ruin, he determined to do something about it. He took a hockey stick to class Friday...
...love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach both children a lesson, sent her brutal brother and two sons out to give Rene "a good scare." But even Mother Slogum was frightened when she heard they had castrated...
...rich today, poor tomorrow; we are popular today and the world cries for our heads tomorrow. Sooner or later to every man, like all great religious experiences. comes some provocative occasion that requires his soul. The outward standards of success are so glamorous that a man can be horribly humiliated unless he lives up to them. But every man in his home and within can be a real...