Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader of and as an enthusiast about TIME, I want to take you to task for publishing on p. 28 of the Oct. 9 issue a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. I think that TIME shows decidedly poor taste in publishing a semi-nude picture of the President's son, when the boy has particularly requested that he be let alone, and that this photograph be not used. This is the type of thing expected from the racy tabloids, but not of your magazine. Even newspapers like the Times and the Herald Tribune did not publish this picture...
...Marry a poor girl...
Sudden approach of many close football games leaves poor prognosticator panting in wake like Big Bad Wolf that tried to blow down Little Pig's house. Like Wolf color finally turns to purple as poor, panting prognosticator contemplates Holy Cross. Ignorant people say Holy Cross will Reiss to the occasion and Crusader's Notre Dame system will lead them out of the Woods, but greater knowledge reveals their attack will be Britt-le. Harvard will run round Purple ends till Sheehands outpoints with final score 20-13 for Crimson...
...Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their ears are accustomed to the Chinese tone, reassuringly universal. There are surprisingly few Oriental locutions or ceremonial incantations; the narrative is written even more simply than...
...most useful. Dr. O'Shea has been a public schoolman for 46 years. He was appointed Superintendent in 1924, succeeding Dr. William L. Ettinger who was politically ousted by Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan. Dr. O'Shea is kindly, gentle, petulant when criticized, sometimes in poor health and now poor in eyesight. A good Roman Catholic, he often was closeted with New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Superintendent O'Shea has publicly said: "I am no glutton for power." The two men most talked of to succeed him are not so minded. They are Deputy...