Word: poor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...menace which Winsor is supposed to constitute: if only all the menaces which threaten the poor undergraduate at Harvard were as pleasant, this would be paradise indeed...
...Poor Nose...
...little eyes of Louisiana's Senator Huey Pierce Long nearly popped out of his round face with excitement last week. By thundering majorities, his well-bossed electorate had just endorsed by referendum some more of his "poor people" laws: to abolish poll taxes, to impose income taxes, to exempt from taxation homes assessed at less than...
...honesty of the final baseball games of the season, club-owners indignantly considered such action a serious slur on the sport. President Heydler, a onetime umpire, credited with inventing the practice of keeping baseball batting averages, promptly resigned from the job he has held since 1918, gave poor health as his reason...
Gatti could, if he would, have been eloquent on the subject of his career. He could have told how he and his friend Arturo Toscanini arrived at the Metropolitan 26 years ago, how between them they had given artistic and financial authority to a company rich with singers, poor in discipline. Gatti could have boasted rightfully of his business prowess. In the Opera's palmy days had he not made performances pay for themselves in addition to providing a $1,000,000 nest egg? He could have recalled many historic scenes: plump little Marcella Sembrich making her operatic farewell...