Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Boy's Progress. When President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the Senate, only he and Hugo Black knew what was in it and Senator Black's knowledge was hours old. The nomination fell as a bombshell to the press if not to the nominee, whose previous experience on the bench consisted of a year-and-a-half as a "boy judge" in Birmingham's police court. That was in 1910, three years after he had left poverty-bitten Clay County with $1.20 following the burning of the law office young Hugo had managed...
...must to all men, Death came last week to John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
...poor defenceless animals...
...largest group, Washington, D. C.'s 225, over half are "sun-downers"' who work at political jobs days and practice law evenings. New York City has 112 Negro lawyers, mostly in Harlem. In the entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor to pay a lawyer or else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient...
Leading parts in Song on Your Bugles are assigned to a poor boy who has the makings of a great artist and the Yorkshire factories which work for his defeat. Few novelists are ever able to write convincingly about either genius or working-class life. Eric Knight's credible portrayal of both, plus his skillful handling of an idiomatic locale, combine to make his novel outstanding on any grounds; as an example of that rare work, a really dramatic "proletarian" novel, it is more remarkable still...