Word: poor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...national party organization in New York City, has received most of the Federal patronage and dislikes Tammany. Unenthusiastic over Mayor O'Brien's showing at the polls, he knew that in recent straw votes conducted by the police for Tammany, Mayor O'Brien had made a poor showing. The chances of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, last year's able and economical Acting Mayor, against Fusionist La Guardia in the November elections appeared considerably better than O'Brien's. Anxious lest a Fusion victory in New York weaken the state ticket...
...political career. When the child was n his father died and a rich uncle took him in. A Buddhist, Kagawa studied English in a Presbyterian English Bible Class. At 15 he became a Christian, was promptly disinherited. His health failing, he lived for a time in a poor fishing village, then for four years in the slums of Kobe. He went to the U. S., studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, earned expenses at odd times as a butler to various Manhattan families. Author of some 40 best-selling novels and devotional works, Toyohiko Kagawa earns $10,000 a year...
...great modern newspaper are like a thoroughfare where walk thousands upon thousands of sad, merry, desperate, frivolous, austere human beings. . . . Here and there one will pause an instant and say something that touches the heart of even the most habituated builder of that thoroughfare, as when this poor man in the moment of death thought of the 'S. F. Examiner . . . and ... a very dear little lady...
...might cause some well-clothed shudders. Prettily executed and often good for a laugh, Mandoa, Mandoa! may well seem to thoughtful readers a shrewd axe-blow at the roots of an aging tree. Mandoa, an (imaginary') independent country to the west of Abyssinia, was complacently self-sufficient. Small, poor but proud, it was a nominal matriarchate actually ruled by a small male aristocracy, supposedly Christian but actually savage, subsisting on the slave trade. When a U.S. cinema company was stranded for a while on Mandoan territory Mandoans got their first exciting taste of civilization. Old-timers wanted no more...
...going to open up. They found out that he could run once in a while, that at times he could throw a pass within 10 yards of the receiver but he wasn't doing it often enough to suit them. His passes were terrible and his running was poor. His field-generalship was a matter of personal opinion. Every one is hoping for the realization of the promise of better things this year but it's too early...