Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Future films will be shown in the auditorium of the Rice Institute of Geographical Exploration because the production of last week showed many defects due to the poor mechanical equipment that was used in the Renaissance Hall of the Germanic Museum. Since there has been no trouble in showing the French films in the former hall the committee expects that the German films will be more enjoyable to the audience next year. The acoustics in the Geography building also are much better than those at the Germanic Museum, and there is a greater seating capacity in the former hall...
...dusty blue twilight, Mass. Avenue has shed its whirling purposiveness, its absorption in business duties, classes, shopping; and the Vagabond is thankful. Now he notices the slim young girl in the rear of the store, dressed in poor dishevelled black, and it does not matter what she is buying, what grey routine she is coming from; she is there, bright flesh, smiling, unworried, absolute in the moment, against a gaudy background of boxes and labels, like some person in a novel. The streetcars pass, carrying people to no destination; they sit in the brightly lit rows of seats, staring...
...roofs or the mud walls of their houses. In India the people are said to have five billion ounces of silver quietly tucked away and in China another three billion ounces. When the price of silver goes down they normally buy and hoard more, but today they are too poor to buy at any price. The big reason that the price of silver went down to 25? an ounce was that China and India who tucked away 218,000,000 oz. of silver in 1929. last year tucked away only...
...commodity, however, held so much hope for any one man as tin did for Simon I. Patino. Starting a poor native of the frozen mountains of Bolivia, he has wangled himself power and untold millions out of the tin mines in the mountains. Today he lives in a gilded Parisian palace, envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to France, with a daughter married to a Spanish marquis and a son married to a Bourbon princess, master in his own right of 15% of the world's tin resources. A rise of 4? a pound in tin, a rise...
...during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently on the anchor rope, while trying to escape. Silliest shot: Bavian leering at his poor old dipsomaniac landlady until she falls over in a giggling swoon...