Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women bring a quality to writing that men would have to go to the moon to find. At their worst, they are poor imitations of he-hacks; at their best they are in a class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept...
Among those who were active in undertaking the petition were Raymond S. Clark '36, Winthrop H. Lee '36, Rodman W. Paul '36, Henry V. Poor '36, and John W. Perry...
...Poor Vincent" Van Gogh, who died an apparent failure in 1890, and whose paintings remained obscure for more than 30 years, is now sweeping away the barriers of New England conservatism with an exhibition of his modernistic work lent by the Kroeller-Mueller Foundation of Holland to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...Artist Poor, who spends most of his time in New City, N. Y., can never decide whether he would rather paint pictures or turn and glaze pottery. For the Department of Justice last week he had nearly completed two knife-narrow panels showing a prisoner entering and being released from a Federal penitentiary. Possibly none of WPA's artists-on-relief could have handled so difficult a space problem so easily...
...most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given to the white tuan. He lost his pay gambling. An attempted escape did him no good. At the end of his contract, because he was ashamed to go home as poor as he had left, he signed again...