Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lynd in his Middletown in Transition [TIME, April 19] may think that the Balls are an economic royalistic octopus squeezing the life out of us poor devils in Muncie, but it is hard to convince Muncieites of this fact...
With such poor debating competition as this, oldster Lloyd George came off with the day's forensic honors, taunting the Prime Minister with the memory of his late, great halfbrother, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G. "Many times the late Austen Chamberlain in this House," cried Mr. Lloyd George, "said: 'What is the good of making any pact with Germany? She will only keep it as long as it suits her, and the moment she has a good excuse for breaking it, and it suits her, she will break it?' I am sorry to say that...
...Italian flag again and steam back to Italy escorted by II Duce's war dogs. Leftist ships, although they lack destroyer escorts, hoist the British or French flag when that seems a good idea, and from any point of view the Non-intervention Committee is cutting so poor a figure that last week its chairman, Lord Plymouth, suggested that unless something be done to give it greater effectiveness it might as well wind itself...
...Church the friend of the poor...
...real friend of the poor, though some of her members don't act like...