Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Congress denied further funds for 'Quoddy. thousands of men were laid off until only a corporal's guard was left. Six pies and eight loaves were all this remnant could consume in a day. Since New Deal regulations failed to provide for distributing food to the poor, the balance of the daily order went to the garbage heap and "Farmer Ed Pottle of Perry, who keeps a lot of pigs, has the contract to remove 'Quoddy garbage, and that is how he has been able of late to feed his pigs on pie-eight kinds...
Still evident, too, is poor distribution of seasonal goods. While Moscow sweltered through a heat wave, buyers combed stores in vain for electric fans, found only electric heaters...
...Pope. Now 49, she is tall (over 6 ft.), blonde, unmarried, with straight classic features. Readers who know her previous books will be surprised at the interest in social conditions revealed in Victoria of England and at Author Sitwell's sympathy for the sufferings and struggles of the poor. Together with the artful sketches of the celebrities around the Queen, chapters illuminating the social background form the chief distinction of Victoria of England, throwing light on a side of the sovereign's career that Lytton Strachey neglected...
...worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons, got a few small commissions, finally a scholarship. Her ally through these hard years was a young man several years ahead of her in the Nottingham Art School, as poor and as able as she. His name was Harold Knight, and in 1903 she married him. Same year she got her first picture accepted by the Royal Academy, sold it at once. After that her struggles were practically over...
...what critics have called the Little-Did-He-Think school of biography, his labors to enhance Bass's reputation as a bad man are largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of Bass as a poor illiterate devil who was constantly falling into traps, robbing empty trains, making friends with spies. A tall Indiana boy, an orphan at 13, Bass was caught up in the social chaos that followed the Civil War, drifted South in Reconstruction days, worked in a Mississippi sawmill, before he became involved...