Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor an attraction was Father Dillinger and his stories of Son John that his female manager discharged him after three days. Second most ballyhooed exhibit of the Midway was "The Bouquet of Life," a "fearless, daring, beautiful" series of human embryos from three days to 240. For Cleveland's tremendous (72%) foreign population the Exposition offered the "Streets of the World," in which 36 nationalities were represented, with and without food. Expositions are made or marred by the amount of female nudity on display...
...conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes...
...Buick. March 18 first levee of Edward VIIIth reign, held at Buckingham Palace. April 2 spent two hours instead of the customary two days receiving the Privileged Bodies of Great Britain, the Clergy, university officials etc. April 9 revived the disused custom of personally distributing "Maundy Money" to the poor in Westminster Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk, a youth in school in England, prior to the new King's departure for Cairo. May g encouraged...
...Poor Little Rich Girl (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple pictures, emerging with the regularity of the seasons, have one point in common. All are minutely tailored to suit her requirements. In this procedure, the weak point is that Shirley Temple's requirements have now outgrown the ingenuity of her purveyors. Her current summer issue, in doing justice to the Temple torch song and tap dance, neglects the Temple talent for emotional acting...
...thoroughly modernized version of the Mary Pickford classic of 1916, The Poor Little Rich Girl depicts its peewee heiress-heroine wandering away from her father's mansion, following an organ grinder to his basement flat, making friends with the vaudeville actors who live upstairs, joining their act which turns out to be a smash hit on the radio hour of the crotchety soap manufacturer who is her father's business rival. Shirley is absent from the screen in only six sequences, foots neatly through three dance numbers, sings You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby...