Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken up, but is a godsend keeping me up on what goes on in the mother-land...
...professional relief seekers. Down the steps to greet them marched big bluff Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson, only Farmer-Labor Governor in the land. The State Senate, preponderantly conservative, was still mulling over the Olson relief program. The theme of the marchers' plea was: "Tax the rich to feed the poor...
Dorothy Brown Locke took up fencing five years ago when she was 16 because her father, a Manhattan mathematics teacher, disapproved of her posture. Joseph Vince, to whose Salle d'Armes Mr. Locke sent her, saw very little promise in Dorothy; her knees wobbled, she had poor coordination. She practiced three hours at a time, three times a week, became a close friend of Marion Lloyd who, another Vince pupil, has the soundest technic among U. S. woman fencers. Dark-haired, calm, utterly unromantic, Fencer Locke trains on as much chow-mein as she can eat, never loses...
...comes from Norman Thomas; for a socialistic burglar selected his particular summer home of all those on Long Island from which to filch fifty prime hens. For while Mr. Thomas was interpreting his doctrine literally by leaving his chicken shanty unlocked in a spirit of welcome to rich man, poor man, beggar man, and even to thief, the burglar seems to have taken him at his word. And the doubting Thomas awoke yesterday morning to find that a modicum of his store had been spirited away, because, to use his own ungracious phrase, "he had been too dumb to have...
...London stage-door Johnny, picking up an American actress, along with her glove, offends her Broadway pride, but persuades her to marry him, contrary to parental ambitions. Some months later, he leaves his poor but pregnant wife to seek, aid from home; his father refuses to give in, and he commits suicide. The child is abducted by the relentless grandparent. The expected meeting with his mother takes place in a French house of ill-repute, during the war, where her clean life has finally rewarded her with the job of madame. The worldly-wise young soldier reforms, when he learns...