Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slimness was all right for Diego Rivera who had a doctor watching him like a mother hen. But it is a risky business, just as unsupervised dieting is risky. Obesity is not a simple condition always due to gluttony or laziness. Endocrine glands may be out of order. A poor thyroid may not keep metabolism spurred. Poor sexual apparatus causes a peculiar pudginess and a warped pituitary gland an odd flabbiness. Dieting and/or exercise unaided by doctoring cannot put those glands back in kilter...
...became worried by the thriftlessness of his parishioners. Persuading them to bring their surplus pennies to the manse each week, he finally hit on the idea of a mutual savings bank. The bank belonged to depositors; there were no stockholders. Long regarded as an excellent means of making the poor help themselves, mutual savings banks rooted quickly in the U. S., but never firmly either south of the Potomac or west of the Alleghenies. In those regions the poor either stayed poor or relied on stock savings banks, commercial banks and building & loan associations. Last week New York State mutual...
...with still another Holy War. Vexed, Turkiya Hassan walked to the police, cried that she had been beaten because she had refused to be baptized a Christian. All over Egypt pious Moslems cried out in fury. The Arab Press squirmed with headlines like a parade of Arabic sea serpents: poor children were lured into schools and clinics for conversion; missionaries made use of hypnotism: French Catholics called Mohammed an impostor and vilified his faith. Two of the biggest newspapers are owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves be completely outdone in anti-Christian fury. While the Press squirmed...
...Stephenson's big sloop, Velsheda, with which he may challenge for the America's cup next year: her fifth victory in a row, in the Royal Clyde Yacht Club regatta, with King George's Britannia second and Shamrock V a poor third; at Hunter's Quay, Scotland. ¶ The New York Athletic Club Relay team: four of their five races at the A. A. U. Championships, where Glenn Cunningham set a U. S. record for the 1,500 meter run; in Chicago. ¶ The New York Giants: a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals; both games...
Samarang (Bennie F. Zeldman) is a thin slice of life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have her teeth covered with gold. She was Sai-Yu, a 17-year-old dancer in a Malay theatre. Her father did not want her to act in cinema but since she was under contract to the local theatre, his objections made no difference. They discovered also a handsome young native...