Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant talent of Edward Everett Borton and Edna May Oliver make the other mediocre movie. "The Poor Rich" adequate entertainment for the tired undergraduate. In the role of penniless aristocratic cousins with an impressive genealogical background, they make a last desperate attempt to obtain a rich bride for the here. After several complications. Albert finds that he can marry where true love guides him. Grant Mitchell, who has never equaled in the films the success he scored in the play. "Little Accident," gave a satisfactory interpretation of the deputy sheriff. Neither Leila Hyama nor Thelma Todd were allowed...
Hakodate's great wind last week marched Hakodate's great fire down the sandy isthmus of the poor folk, to the office buildings, hotels and banks along modern Ginya Boulevard, through the fine houses of the residential section, up to the base of the peaks. First to burn was the power house and out went all Hakodate's lights. Soon after the wireless station went, shutting the city off from the world. With the flicker of flames over their shoulders, crazy mobs stampeded down the dirt streets. Frantic little firemen ran toward the fire, hosed impotently. turned...
...costs $8 per sq. ft. Even with government money apartments built on this land will rent for $9.75 per room per month. With land at $6 per foot the rental can be cut to $8.75. Yet plenty of stinking flats are available today at $2 or $3 per room. Poor people can afford no more. If one slum area is cleared, its residents crowd into another, and higher-income groups move into the nice new buildings. When Fred F. French razed...
...story with sentimental conviction. Walter Hoxsie's farm on the Rhode Island shore had been in his family for generations. He liked his life there, especially when his cousin Sarah came to live with him after his mother died, and never considered living anywhere else. But Hoxsie was poor, and the land yielded less & less every year. When a Providence real estate company made him a good offer for his land Hoxsie thought he might as well take it. Asa Congdon. urged by his go-ahead wife, advised Hoxsie to sell, hoped that the real estate company would come...
...Ownership of Canadian National is represented by a single share of stock registered in the name of George V and deposited in Ottawa. His Majesty's investment is a notoriously poor one. Last year C. N. R. operated at a $52,000,000 deficit...