Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since then Farmer Mingo's mother, his only close relative. has died. Since then over 500 days have come & gone. Since then Farmer Mingo has stayed in jail. Last week he was still in jail because the jail commissioners, having received a petition from him to take the poor debtor's oath, were checking up to make sure that he really had no assets. And last week his fellow citizens were beginning to realize that it would have been cheaper for them to pay his $350 debt than to jail him, for at 75? a day, the town...
Onto this extraordinary set Playwright Kingsley leads a poor crippled architect who, in the vain hope of winning a young woman living with one of the plutocrats in the fine apartment, informs on a boyhood friend named "Babyface" Martin. Martin's predilection for homicide has ranked him as Public Enemy No. 1. At the same time, the dramatist shows by inference how "Babyface" Martins are made by tracing the activities of a moppet named Tommy (Billy Halop) and his juvenile gang. There is nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which...
...third speaker, Roger Baldwin, onetime conscientious objector, found the peace movement weak in colleges and weaker outside, although worthy in its aims. Lack of coherence and organization were two chief difficulties. More important, however, he declared, was the eternal division of the rich and poor, the haves and the havenots. Advancing this conception of history one stage farther, he declared that until socialism and communism dominated the world and the League, permanent peace could not be assured...
...hard. Rain leaked through the roof of the little dark house where we lived and it was damp. We had poor food, but he was always a loving and considerate son-a model...
...hundred-and-eighty-four canvases and pieces of sculpture were on view. In general critics from Manhattan were inclined to agree with their Chicago confreres. Jurymen Lloyd Goodrich, Waldo Peirce and Henry Varnum Poor awarded the $500 Frank G. Logan prize to pretty Doris Lee of Woodstock. N. Y. for an animated cartoon of U. S. farm life entitled Thanksgiving. In an old-fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables...