Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart how unimportant his strip really was, Editor Patterson threw Daddy, Annie...
Clucked Warbucks' friends: "He's given millions to help poor people like me. . . . He paid the mortgage on my home. . . . What a farce! I'll bet half the jury aren't even sure what they're trying...
...Poor man's plane was called for by Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Department of Commerce Aeronautics Branch who declared: "It should be possible to buy airplanes at the cost of automobiles...
...readers, though they may be taken in by shoddy, like honest homespun better. Readers who passed by The Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs no synopsis-guidebook. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, son of a poor blacksmith. Confederate soldier, unreconstructed rebel, has become in his old age the big man of his Alabama town. Banker and pillar of the church, he has left far behind him his wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune. He is happy with his young wife, his adored only...
...many years we have maintained that something should be done to protect the poor innocent Freshman from the clutches of solicitors for subscriptions, laundry, and pressing contracts. A great deal of suffering has been caused by this ardent desire for business...