Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jane Seymour bears him an heir, Henry is out hawking. He gallops back to the palace across windy fields, barely pauses to say "Poor little Jane!" when he hears that she is dead...
Frogs, toads and other amphibians have tears. Many amphibians "have fair color vision, but . . . their sight is in general poor...
...students, Legitimist Deputy Father Greiger startled Hungary by announcing that the Habsburgs are now willing to come back on the cheap. "We need have no fear of extravagance!" cried Father Greiger. "Otto has told me that on becoming King of Hungary he is prepared to be definitely a poor man's king. ... It is slander to say that Otto speaks Hungarian with an Austrian accent. He speaks better Hungarian than Koloman de Kanya, our present Foreign Minister"-who speaks with the West Hungarian accent of his native town Sopron...
...welfare work. Called by New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes under the patronage of Pope Pius XI, this year's Conference coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, an unobtrusive organization of laymen who care for the poor, working mainly with small donations dropped in the poor-boxes in all Catholic churches...
...always tell a Harvard man, so goes the old adage, but you cannot tell him much. For true erudition of this variety, Professor Kittredge knows no poor. Not long ago the noted Shakespearean scholar was attending a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Behind him, in Row J, Seat 15, sat an elderly lady; the very model of a Savoyard aunt or mother-in-law; one whom time had passed by in its fast flight, and left in the twilight of bygone days, a little unknowing. After the first act, she remarked to her companion, "It is lovely...