Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belongs to a school most of whom have gone to their home beyond the Jordan. These poor souls could hide much misery beneath an aching heart. Suffering under a double handicap, color and lack of education, they were too tired to give much thought to advancement and constitutional rights. May they rest in peace...
None was so poor to do it reverence...
...voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week two small boys heard whimpering sounds in a deserted ice house in a poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile of debris, her naked body black with frostbite. The boys whispered excitedly. Then an older boy, bold-eyed and sturdy in long pants, entered the ice house. "Scram...
...they dug out the necessary forty cents for a seat in the balcony. Once they got inside there wasn't anybody in sight so they majestically strode into the boxes. The smallest one of the bunch was 6 feet, 3 1-2 inches, weighing 185 pounds, and the poor little usher who came to investigate the rumpus quailed before the towering height of the giants. So they stayed right where they were--in the boxes for forty cents...
...government bonds temporarily on the list of the assets of the defunct Union Trust of Cleveland can be charged against the famous pair, they will have proven themselves financiers of an exceptional order of morality. The practice is as common as an alley cat, and it's a poor bank indeed that cannot list at least a few government bonds on its balance sheet when call day comes around. WOTAN