Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fanny." It might prove simpler, however, to have the "Fanny chapters" a subsidiary of the "Johns." (Miss) FANNY PARKER Des Moines, Iowa Diminishing Otter Sirs: Probably like others, I have been amused by the interest and concern aroused in some of your readers by the unhappy condition of the poor little koala in Australia and have heartily seconded Mr. Dow's suggestion that Mrs. Schroeder's $50 be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life. And now, after having seen yesterday a Grantland Rice Sportlight featuring the six unique otter pets of a gentleman from...
...rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi last week recall to Teheran his Minister to France. Mirza Abolghas-sem Nadjm "for an explanation," and withdraw his promise to lend Iranian art objects to the coming Paris International Exhibition which opens...
...placing counters upon a numbered board, the numbers being drawn, called, and five in a row on the board winning the game. Chief Bingo operators are cinema houses, clubs, and Roman Catholic churches in the East, the first discovering that the game fills the house no matter how poor the picture, the latter two finding it a fine money-raiser for worthy causes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, .N. Y. last month outlawed Bingo in his diocese (TIME, Dec. 21), but his apostolic colleagues of the East have not followed suit...
...scuttle for Manhattan in an airplane with a bodyguard. That autumn a Connecticut motorcycle police-man caught him doing 64 m.p.h. on the Boston Post Road. He said he was trying to get a friend to a boat, was fined $27. Early in 1934, because his marks were poor, young Winthrop left Yale, set out to be the first Rockefeller since his grandfather to go into the oil business for a career.* First stop was in Jennings, La., where he boarded at Mrs. Inez Daugherty's Ardennes Hotel, labored with a "roughneck" gang in Humble's Roanoke field...
Eight years earlier but more advanced as "The Development of Narrative," to be followed on February 9 by some made just before the war. The original negatives have been transferred to new film, but the audience is assured that gaps and poor focuses are included for purposes of historical accuracy...