Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alas, although treaties permit the filming of such a picture, it would cost much money. Because we are poor we do not have international reciprocity in the cinema. But neither (and this is a compensation) do we have lynchings...
Daughter of a poor miller of Lourdes in the edge of the Pyrenees, Bernadette Soubirous at 14 was a pious, illiterate child, frail and asthmatic. One February day 75 years ago she went out looking for firewood with her sister Marie and a friend named Jeanne. When they reached the icy river Gave de Pau the other two waded in but Bernadette fearfully hung back. Then, she recounted later, she heard a terrific rumbling, a rushing as of wind. In a nearby grotto she beheld a golden cloud in which appeared a "beautiful lady," in a blue-sashed white gown...
...Calif.'s city jail last week, "let me stay here until my memory returns." The officers in charge, accustomed to mental derelicts, concluded that here was an authentic case of amnesia, gave the man harbor. For several minutes his hand hovered over the jail register. Eventually he signed: "Poor Devil...
...Thanksgiving Eve "Poor Devil" was idling through the Sept. 23 issue of The Literacy Digest. On p. 8 was a news photograph which made him suddenly shout, "That's me! That...
...picture showed a Department of Agriculture official handing crop reports to newspapermen in Washington at precisely 3 p. m. a hot summer day. Cried "Poor Devil": "Find out who signs all the papers to confiscate tainted crops, and that...