Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia in them and often that night I could almost feel the guillotine at my throat. They hated me, yet they were fascinated. I stood for all that women who wear jewels represent. Frankly I think I am the only person in ten years who has given poor dismal Russia a thrill. I taught them a lesson. Hereafter when a girl visits Russia she can wear her jewels. There can be no surprise after...
...other bids, ranging from $1,650 to $6,670, made poor reading for Director Vidal. Only major manufacturer to bid was Curtiss-Wright Airplane...
...this time Artist Jere Miah II refused to let his name be known, but emitted a series of pronouncements through President Birch-Field of the gallery. Most important was the fact that he had never been on the PWA rolls. The initials after his name, he said, meant "Poor White Artist." The only hint of his identity was a report that the artist was comparatively unknown, 35, tall, blond, separated from his wife and disgusted with the New Deal...
Born in 1878 when the new Japan was in its infancy, Seiji Noma, whose father had been of the samurai, was rooted in the feudal past. His family was poor but proud. At school he was an idle, mischief-making but lusty youth, excelling in oratory and fencing. Despite early pride and poverty, and the vein of moralizing that runs through his narrative, Noma is no Horatio Alger hero, dislikes being called a self-made man. Sent to the Luchu Islands as a Government teacher, he displayed marked talents for conviviality, enjoyed wining, dining and the entertainment of geisha girls...
Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...