Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notwithstanding. I still persist in reading TIME from p. 1 to the bitter end. Please do not permit our great friend and diplomat, C. D. H. G. D-Dowse, to cause you to go out of print. He was merely endeavoring to get some of our free American publicity, poor soul. For everyone of his type, I know 50 good eggs from the British army and navy...
...have made me happy and glad indeed by your story about Sinclair Lewis and how he wept over the bodies of the poor people killed in Austria [TiME...
...purity of Jesse James's motives has been widely accepted, his actions included the killing of a very large number of persons, chiefly sheriffs, and on one authentic occasion he and four companions attacked 60 Union soldiers and managed to kill 52. He made almost a habit of giving poor farmers money to pay off their mortgages, but usually recovered the sum from the holder of the mortgage by violent means...
...reward set by the State of Missouri for Jesse's capture or extermination. A lyricist of the day wrote: Why did they kill him thus so sudden? Why pin on him Death's awful lance? Why pluck the flower just in its budding? Why didn't they give poor Jesse a chance...
...Poor Nut (Jack Mulhall). Parts of J. C. & Elliott Nugent's play made into an inferior cinema tell a story about the despised college grind who turned himself into a revered athlete when one of the campus belles tinkled near his heart...