Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor Peter Rabbit was more confused than ever...
...Poor, persecuted Mr. Culbertson! His income is reported to fall but little short of a million a year from royalties exacted from teachers who use his system, and are forced to buy his playing-cards, score-cards, and other paraphernalia. Yet with it all he found time in his syndicated newspaper article yesterday to give a good word for Sims and some advice to the kiddies. "I have acknowledged Papa Sims as the second greatest card player in the country, but after watching him play the following hand, I, for the moment, forgot myself by stating publicly that...
...once mocked, so certain haughty gentlemen used to mock our Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. They mocked him as a 'house painter,' as a 'laborer,' but they mock him no longer. Just as 2,000 years ago Christ began to speak in a small circle to poor, simple people while the proud and the rich and the noble stayed away, just so the same thing has repeated itself in our time. Simple men with no college education rule the Fatherland today. Not long ago a certain professor whom you all know expressed publicly the opinion that the leading...
Obvious to the Guild as well as to outsiders was the fact that the strike had prevailed, not against a rich strong paper, but against a poor weak one with one foot already in the courts. Therefore the Guild refrained from crowing, claimed only "a substantial victory for Guild principles," promised to make the Ledger "better than ever...
Cambridge is a poor place to have such a book reviewed because it is impossible to read the chapter on "Fair Harvard" without nausea. "Soon after his matriculation it was noised about the Yard that a freshman up in Thayer Hall was a jim-dandy at the piano. Tom was all of that. He could glance over a piece of difficult music he had never seen before, throw it aside, and play if off fluently from note memory, a feat few have been able to master' . . . One distinction in particular contributed to his prestige. This was his election...