Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last of all is the man who wants a job to determine his vocational objective. He doesn't know what he wants to do with his life so he seeks a job which he thinks will tell him. Poor fellow, he'll never know; he's lazy...
Perhaps the most definite statement of Dr. Conant's ideas came Monday when he addressed the Harvard Club at Kansas City. The poor child should have equal educational opportunities with the richer ones, he said...
Denny's programs consist of talks on controversial topics by provocative speakers and questions from the audience. What makes them exciting is uninhibited heckling. The speakers heckle each other and the audience heckles everybody. The auditors boo and cheer, are made up of the rich and poor, the well-informed and the ignorant. Once a questioner shouted: "I don't object to President Roosevelt's using the radio to inform the country on the state of the nation but I do object to his using it to propagate...
...worse. The rare visitor able to cope with South American life seemed to Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes. The farther he went, the sadder he got. So he named South America the "Sad Continent...
...main criticisms was that "The contralized agrarian program takes money from the middle and poor classes in the United States in proportion as they are poverty stricken. The relief authorities give it back to the very poor. The net sufferers are the middle classes...