Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Konoye at only 42 became President of the House of Peers, most of whose members are three decades older. It became a settled thing among Japanese insiders that he was one day to be Premier, and the Japanese public are charmed by his anecdotes of when he was poor and put-upon...
...German Rome, and thousands of pilgrims flocked to the tremendous pageants which Princes of the Church put on there every year. In 1842 Salzburg held its first music festivals in honor of Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg's most famous son. Later Mozart festivals were meagrely attended, poor things after the city's golden past. Hardly anybody visited Salzburg except hunters and fishers who climbed up to buy wine from monks at the Peterstift, or tourists interested in crumbling Schlosser and gay peasant clothes...
Crack British runners are the coolest, most versatile in the world. The Oxford-Cambridge track teams, which invade the U. S. every four years to oppose Harvard-Yale and Princeton-Cornell, generally shine in the running events but are defeated because of poor performances in the field events. Publicized as the strongest group ever sent, this year's Oxford-Cambridge team proved unusually well-balanced. Relying on both team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted...
...occasion was the British occupation of Philadelphia by General William Howe in the Revolution. Chartered in 1759 by Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Proprietaries and Governors-in-Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware, as "The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children...
Opening gun of the late Mr. Bok's campaign was fired in March 1906, in an editorial headed "Frankness With Children." Said he: "The tenderest parent sometimes grows tired of the eager eyes and hungry brain of his child. The poor little traveler is bewildered by the strange world in which he suddenly finds himself. . . . For absolute filth, go and listen to the talks of the boys and girls during recess in our schools. Some of these little ones belong to refined Christian families. Their parents would shrink in horror at the thought of unveiling the sacred mysteries...