Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, the Bunnies have done poorly in recent scrimmages, largely due to poor attendance at practices. Also, injuries have taken their toll of Rabbit regulars, with 200-pound Walt Bass and quarterback Ollie Foote sidelined with minor bumps...
...trainers (whom he had put on his payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms had to be set up outside the tent to hold the entertainers who offered free assistance. This week, among a jampacked, wildly cheering crowd of children...
...sits next to the frowzy storyteller. He recognizes her for the Monte Carlo countess, but tries to prevent her from recognizing him.) From cardsharping, he continues, he made the sorry error of turning to mere gambling and lost his hard-won savings in honest play. Poor again, he found work in a playing card factory but lost his job because he marked the cards. (At this point the Monte Carlo countess picks him up, suggests that now, since he is elderly and poor, the narrator might wish to become her accomplice in a little genteel safecracking. "Countess," says the narrator...
...vividness and punch Big Blow is another Federal Theatre feat comparable to last season's Haiti. Dealing with the Florida Crackers-blood cousins to Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road poor whites-it paints a frightening picture of ignorance, prejudice, cruelty: the natives' Calibanesque way of life, their hatred of ""furriners"," their venom toward Negroes, their savage Holy Roller hysteria...
...back with a rich historical haul. They get a good idea of what it was like to be a 17-year-old penniless apprentice in Philadelphia in 1723; a fresh account of the state of science when Franklin began his electrical experiments; an essay on the more worldly of Poor Richard's maxims, such as "There's more old drunkards than old doctors," or "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Genuinely exciting is the 200-page record of the growing antagonism between England and the colonies, as Franklin witnessed it in London, where...