Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME come out with the truth once in a while? Commander Hobart [TIME, Jan. 21] did apply for his bonus, and cashed same . . . to finance the fight against the poor veterans who are in need...
Reconvened after the holiday recess to hear Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald denounced by a Scottish Independent Laborite in language so strong that it was censored out of Hansard, the official minutes of debate. With a score of poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing...
...said the Jew. "The Jew is to be classed just as any other group, because, instead of being a solid bloc, they are in disunion. There are good Jews and bad Jews; rich Jews and poor Jews. . . . The tragedy is that every Jew wants to be a leader...
...hard and continuous fighting, the Harvard mermen swamped McGill by a score of 56 to 15 last night in the Harvard pool. Although the times were poor, Coach Ulen stated last night that the team has shown marked improvement in the last two weeks...
...fire with Lee Tracy's little boy supposedly locked in a box within the flaming tents. Another explanation of the mediocrity of the picture may be that the theatre believes that a dull setting best sets off a jewel, that their vaudeville may better shine beside a poor film. However that may be, the vaudeville is entertaining and the screen fare distinctly second rate...