Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugenberg, No. 1 German cinema & press tycoon, said: "We Germans are the poor devils and have nothing more to lose. From the German viewpoint wise and peaceful co-operation between debtor and creditor countries might include two large-minded measures whereby Germany's capacity to make international payments might be increased. One of these steps would be to give Germany again colonial domain in Africa, which might be used by her as a basis for . . . great works and construction...
...discharged he went back to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, the newspaper on which he worked before he went East to Yale. The Spokesman mourned deeply last week the passing of its best colyumist, a man who, News Editor Malcolm Glendenning said, had never once turned in a poor piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant undergraduate record, how he impressed people at first as a swart plain-spoken Westerner...
...comfortably married. She had two children, a luxurious Manhattan house, a nice place in the country, plenty of spending-money from her elderly lawyer husband, John, and a poverty-stricken youth to look back on. She had even inherited a certain amount of talent from her father. But the poor thing was bored. Her husband bored her, and her husband's friends. When Larry Kennard (né Swenson), a Greenwich Village literary racketeer and professional ladies' man, picked her up one day in a hotel lobby, she was thrilled. Author Woodward makes Larry a far-from-attractive specimen...
President Eliot was the first head of Harvard to conceive and attempt to realize college training which should be training for life. Before his reforms the college curriculum was a beaten track, the benefits of which were a few tags, a few poor "accomplishments" like those accomplishments prized by the woman of the Nineties, which marked a man as educated. Beyond that the gains of education were largely incidental--a little disciple, a few hard-won pleasures...
...when it had a circulation of 2,000, should preach the romance of honest toil. †Ladies' Home Journal, as nearly everyone knows, was originated and long edited by the publisher's first wife, Louisa Knapp Curtis. She had scoffed at the poor quality of the women's column in Tribune & Farmer, offered to write a better one herself. Her column grew to a supplement, then to a whole magazine. Many are the stories documenting Publisher Curtis' belief in advertising. Before the Satevepost earned a penny he had poured $1,000,000 into it, largely...