Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coming," continues through a series of international scenes of varying merit ending up with a really good chorus doing a gypsy dance. The merry maestros of the Metropolitan however must needs ruin the effect by bringing out two gentlemen on tux pants and pajama tops to do a rather poor and conventionalized series of acrobatics. They are then followed in their efforts by a half hour with a company of Japanese jugglers, neither startlingly good nor remarkably poor. Still, it is 20 degrees cooler inside...
...always been willing to dramatize the Governor's social welfare programs by picketing, speechmaking, visiting the slums. These activities, undertaken in a thoroughly genuine spirit, have resulted in considerable unpopularity for the couple among their own social set, but have created a large following among the poor...
...utilities magnate, has failed to re-elect the State's attorney who brought him back. There was certainly no triumphal return, with Samuel Insull dragging behind a chariot, nor was there an angry crowd at the station or the jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive whom the law is making into a scapegoat. Pity wells up all over the Windy City. Yet it was Chicago, not the law, which made the man poor by driving him away from his pile, which made him infirm by hounding him rather crudely in half...
Further explaining the situation, Mr. McCaleb said. "You see, it's just as if we were talking in an auditorium which had poor acoustics. In an auditorium the speaker's voice is overlapped by its own echo. The same thing happens with our signals, because one set of waves travelling around the world in one direction reaches the pole shoed of the corresponding waves travelling in the opposite direction. This makes their interpretation almost impossible...
Colonel Bradley first leased, then bought the 400-acre Idle Hour Farm in the heart of the Kentucky blue-grass country near Lexington, later acquiring another 600 acres. The Beach Club pays for this establishment. "My stables keep me poor," says Colonel Bradley. "I can't afford to run them. They cost me $30,000 a month year in and year out, and only in two years have my horses' earnings run as high...