Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury. Young William Curtis Bok, who presided at the speakers' table, .asked Maestro Stokowski and his men to play Mr. Woodin's Covered Wagon suite. The Secretary of the Treasury beamed modestly throughout the performance, then made a little speech: "When I heard my poor music so wonderfully played by Prince Stokowski and his men, I thought, 'There is music in the Treasury and, I hope, harmony.' . . . We are pioneering with a wonderful leader. ... I see before us a river of sunshine and happiness...
...conference Mr. Leland confided that he was dickering with Manhattan bankers and Henry Ford thereupon promised to buy the company. But Mr. Ford shrewdly advised Mr. Leland that he "should continue to negotiate, however, and should dress shabbily, go unshaven for two or three days, so as to appear poor and discouraged about the affair...
...Annette Riviere and her only son Marc do not join in the rejoicing with which Paris greets the Armistice. Annette's warm heart fears what will happen to Marc in the post-War maelstrom, but her cool head warns her to keep her hands off. They are very poor, and Annette steadfastly refuses to take money from her half-sister Sylvie. who as the shrewd mistress of a millionaire is riding high on the tidal wave. When Marc finishes school, he and his mother part-she to go to Rumania as companion in a rich family, he to sink...
...occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma. A series of operations restored her sight, but her eyes have always troubled her. Born Annie Sullivan, the daughter of poor Irish immigrants in Massachusetts, she and her rip-roaring father never got along, and after her mother died she was put in the state poorhouse. Ambitious for schooling, she got herself placed in Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind. Shortly after her graduation she was offered...
...Eccolo, e matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything...