Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards to the article on Religion (TIME, Dec. 25). I have a few words to say on this person so-called leader and other words calling himself God. Father Divine. I have been married to my wife for 20 years happily as a poor person could be I have a daughter 19 years, in high school. W. Broadway, and 193rd or 96th St. and can't recall which one. and this particular person has almost broke up my home, telling my wife he is God and she will live always and never die. she turned in her insurance with...
...unfair inference of the footnote is that Grace Tibbett, as a poor girl, worked to make her husband "rich and famed" and that "rich and famed," Tibbett ungratefully cast her off with perhaps not so much as a "thank you." To present a more complete picture, the footnote should have added that Mr. Tibbett has made generous financial provision for his former wife, and that in the journey from poverty to riches, he also brought Grace Tibbett from poverty and obscurity to comparative affluence and prominence...
...Funk's list necessarily omitted the coiners of such plain and useful words as "washout," "lousy," "okay," "beat it," "razz." Last week the fatherly New York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherché. Ninety-nine per cent of the accredited slang inventions are recherche...
...their lairs and into the shadow of the great Council Rock the she-wolves nuzzle their young. If the cub is judged fit to run with the pack, all is well. If not, the she-wolf and her cubs henceforth hunt alone. And according to Rudyard Kipling that is poor hunting indeed. Last week in Manhattan, like the mother-wolves of India, the motormakers of the U. S. pushed their new models into the shadow of the council rock that is the annual National Automobile Show. And with just as much eager pride as Kipling's she-wolves...
...Mother's scene is China, a small, poor village. Readers will notice gratefully that almost no proper names are used. The heroine is a buxom, warm-tempered young wife who finds her hard life good. Days she spends in the field working beside her man. At evening she cooks for her three children and her aged mother-in-law. She has no spare time and knows what the future will be, but her only worries, soon forgotten, are her daughter's sore eyes, her husband's occasional moody discontent. Her happiness is shattered when...