Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Frieda and Lawrence quarreled they never separated for long. She shared his nomad existence 18 years, in Europe, Ceylon, Australia, the U. S., was with him in his last days on the Riviera. "I enjoyed being poor and I didn't want to play a role in the world." The thing she missed most was her children, whom she saw only secretly, at bitterly long intervals. The Lawrences quarreled not only with each other but with most of their friends. Their friendship with Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murry "was the only spontaneous and jolly" one they...
...poor but exceptionally gifted Persian youth, Omar Khayyam was with the Turkish army that routed the Emperor of Constantinople at Malasgird, saw his best friend killed there. Later as a student of mathematics he made such a reputation that the Sultan made him his astronomer. In his crude observatory Omar revamped the calendar, indulged in heretical speculations about the nature of the universe, tossed off unconsidered little rubai (quatrains) when he felt off his feed. A tragic love affair turned him from an ambitious scientist into a world-weary philosopher. Riches and power were heaped on him by the Sultan...
There has been much talk by members of the present Administration in Washington that the New Deal is the friend of the common man, and that the only library which they are trying to suppress is the liberty of the wealthy to oppress the many poor. We should be pleased to have the Administration answer whether or not it constitutes oppression when...
...Administration passes a law placing a processing tax of $1.65 on every barrel of flour, when flour is the basis of the broad which the poor must...
...matters which bear exposition and close discussion, matters affecting us closely and personally. There is for example, the question of the dininghall rates and the extent to which they are fair in contrast to club meals and the general profit-making scheme of the college; the problem of the poor boy among the sons of the privileged; the efficacy of the Student Council as an adequate expression of undergraduate ideas. Such specifically are some of the subjects the Critic plans to touch upon this year; and any articles dealing with these or related matters will be most gratefully received...