Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During Depression three U. S. politicians, billing themselves as the poor man's friend, went to town. Today one of them, Franklin Roosevelt, is in the White House. Two of them, Huey Long of Louisiana and Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, are in their graves. Last fall in Minnesota Governor Olson's Farmer-Labor Party pulled through the election as it did during his lifetime but on that occasion it had the advantage of riding on Franklin Roosevelt's coat tails. Last week for the first time Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, under the leadership...
...idea of a duel to the blood originated in the mind of that super-pressagent, Fred Schwankovsky, as a means of advertising the Fencing Club Dance. . . . The rehearsal of the routine was wonderful but both principals had stage fright, when the duel came off. ... It was mediocre fencing and poor acting. There was no "jet of blood." The wound from an epee is usually a superficial cut that takes a few seconds to stop bleeding. This was no exception. I have seen more excitement and more blood in a spontaneous duel, coming off during the class period. . . . FRANK DITURI...
...services to his empire was the fact that he was born on June 3, when the weather is fine, when trade is apt to be dull. A king's birthday in the fog and rain of December and in the midst of the Christmas shopping rush is poor business. No reason whatever was given for choosing June 9 as George VI's birthday but the natural supposition was that weather records had been consulted...
Princeton 8, Harvard 6--Poor offensive work of line responsible for Harvard's weak showing...
...dubious gift of gabble. And for every keen sentence he lets them blurt, he makes them babble a tedious paragraph. Star-Begotten is a short book but spots in it seem very long. His scientists may be angels in the laboratory or operating room but often they talk like poor Poll. Says one of them: "In a fools' world sane men will have a bad time anyhow; but they can help wind up the world of fools even if they cannot hope to see it out." Suggested methods of winding it up: sabotage, political assassinations. But when...