Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Europe is in a state of neuras-thenia," the Dictator said. "It was not Germany which lost the last War; it was Europe. The United States gained, Japan gained, Russia gained, but Europe lost its recuperative power, the vital force...
...years to come show such little current success. . . . "In the field of international finance we have, so far as we are concerned, put an end to dollar diplomacy, to money grabbing, to speculation for the benefit of the powerful and rich, at the expense of the small and the poor." [Applause] Neutrality. Because U. S. peace lovers have, within the past year, whipped up the question of U. S. neutrality in a dark and dangerous world to the first legislative rank (see p. 11), all ears pricked up in solemn attention when the President came to this ticklish problem. Said...
Five days later the Italians were at it again, bombing the U. S. Red Cross Hospital at Daggah Bur where Dr. Robert Hockman was killed a month ago when he toyed with a dud bomb. Italian marksmanship was, as usual, poor; there were no casualties...
...July) of the illustrated monthly magazine, U. S. S. R. in Construction, to reach this country has a bit of Tartar humor in the caption to a photograph. It reads: 'General View of the Proletarian Section, Moscow.' Presumably that is the part of town where only the poor people live...
Ernest Cudlipp, vicar of a poor chapel belonging to a rich Manhattan parish, was small, middleaged, energetic, untidy, conservative in belief, liberal in practice. He smoked too many cigarets, was always late because he tried to do too much. Celibate by inclination and experience, he had a poor stomach but liked a good glass of wine. He was no Buchmanite. "What adult could accept as real and true that fairy-tale world in which their Dutch baronesses, Master of Fox Hounds and formerly intemperate butlers all walked laughing and prattling, the children of light, and the children...