Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University is so rich it is poor. Like a little boy who has inherited a fortune, but who, because of the bigotry of his parents, can spend it on kiddy cars and patent leather slippers, but not on licorice and other things that would make a better man of him, the University is prohibited from spending anything but the interest derived from her oil and grazing lands, and that only on physical improvement...
Texas & Monopoly: ". . . Your farmers were among the first to rebel against exploitation by the railroads. In a period of monopoly, combinations, overcapitalization, high rates, poor service and discrimination against the small shipper, you established a landmark in the regulation of public utilities for the good of their users...
...Century-Fox currently has a corner on child stars. This situation lays a heavy burden on the firm's scenarists. Little Miss Nobody is evidence to the effect that they are not capable of carrying it without considerable strain. It is a superannuated fable about peewees at the poor farm, a mixture of practical jokery, youthful fixations and hokum melodrama. Caustic little Miss Withers is most successful when, as the black sheep of an orphan asylum, she steals Thanksgiving turkeys from a grocer's truck, chants superbly a ballad called Then Came the Indians...
...being able to tell me what it was. But--did say it be no noise at all, but only a brain disturbance of the Senior Spread affair, and this I can believe, for never in my life have I been to such a sweaty, messy affair, nor had such poor supper, nor heard such good music but with so little space to make merry in. Bless my soul, scarce lives there a man so bad as a crowd; and Lord, this is only the beginning...
...Tower, and by and by to ask me what will happen to it. I to tell them I do not know, but I know at my heart it will not crumble. It is a good Tower built of whimsy stones and vagrant ideas. One day another Vagabond, poor perhaps in purse, but rich in sentiment and imagination will stop by and see it and through the seeing make...