Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand feet under the Mecsek hills near Pecs, 1,200 miners picked wearily last week at the poor coal that is Hungary's best. On the railroad sidings above were 15,000 unsold carloads of their low-grade handiwork. The mine owner, Danube Steam Navigation Co., largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies...
...procession. Through loudspeakers at the close of the mass came the firm voice of Pope Pius XI. In a benediction broadcast to the world he said: "Only where the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ rules are there offers of promises. Only so, in fact, will this poor world, which we see afflicted with fraternal and regal bloodshed, be able to find true and stable peace, free from so many evils...
...with Louis dead and his watchmaker-grandson on the throne, du Barry is led off to prison. In the interim, she has gone sleigh-riding in midsummer on snow contrived of sugar; made her pickaninny body-servant Governor of Provence; averted war with England; given her jewels to the poor; and presented herself at court in her nightgown. All of this is told with credibility if not with historic accuracy, and acted with superb vitality by Dolores Del Rio. The trouble with Madame du Barry as entertainment is that human relationships are never clearly established. Louis' deathbed scene, when...
...Being married to him kept me from enjoying any normal girlhood. I know it is too late now to try and go back and recapture the fine ecstasy of adolescence, but perhaps I may at least be a normal young widow now that poor 'Daddy's' death has removed the strange tie which has kept me from being either married or single through these eight years of separation...
...loaned him $1,000 to help complete his discovery well, he gave $100,000. He bought a 450,000-acre ranch in Mexico, married again, this time his secretary, now 26. East Texas made Dad Joiner rich but it nearly drove the rest of the oil industry to the poor house. It was East Texas that tumbled the price of crude oil to 10? per bbl. in 1931. It was East Texas that made President Roosevelt put the oil industry under the Secretary of the Interior. And it was East Texas that incited the gasoline price wars which broke...