Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest treasure and sweetness in my struggling life that I could have lived with you and your brother, Dante, and your mother on a neat little farm and learn all your sincere words and tender affection. The same I have wished and love to see for other poor girls and their brothers happy with the mother and father as I dreamed for us-but it was not so and the nightmare of the lower classes has saddened very badly your father's soul. The men of this dying old society, they brutally pulled me away from the embrace...
...with laughter as this bewildered little man teeters down the steps in his vaudeville chaps and timidly grasps the reins of the gift horse he fears to mount. So the Roman populace roared as Nero, seeking their fickle favor, twanged his lyre and in his effeminate voice sang the poor ballads which he had himself composed...
...Bronte had not canceled their alarms when safety neared. Old seamen nodded knowingly. "That's what the fog does to you," they said. The explanation of their silence given by the flyers was this: When the S. O. S. signals were sent, the plane was dropping due to poor fuel feed, which boded a shortage. Near the sea's surface, the clog in pump or fuel line cleared up under the increased atmospheric pressure of the lower altitude. But so close to the sea had they dropped that the radio aerial trailed in the waves, was torn...
...their cinema competitors and were in effect malefactors. Their trade practices had been monopolistic because: 1) By owning or controlling 368 theatres on June 30, 1926 (more than 550 now) the corporation had substantially stifled competition. 2) By renting films only in blocks, exhibitors had to accept pictures of poor drawing power. 3) By buying or threatening to buy picture houses, the corporation bullied exhibitors to come to its terms. Within 60 days these tactics all must cease, ordered the Federal Trade Commission...
...Body obviously Beautiful, singers of blues. There is a heavy tragic skit in which Texas weeps real tears, thanks the audience with honest sobs for their applause. Intimate glimpses of her night club adventure are revealed. "Hello, Sucker, Whaddaya mean ya been overcharged, lemme see that check. Why, ya poor sap! $124, huh! Sucker, you had two tele phone calls. Don't be dumb...