Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce imputed credit for Henry Ford's face-about: "It seems reasonable to suspect that Edsel Ford has had a hand in these evolutions and revolutions. Edsel has given a general impression of steadiness, of balance. In this respect he has been much unlike his brilliant father. Ordinarily a poor man, grown rich, must take pains so that his son shall not be spoiled. In the case of the Fords the procedure has been reversed. . . . Meanwhile Edsel Ford, growing up in the shadow of his father's greatness, seems to have taken a true measure both of his father...
Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...
Died. John Dempsey, 38, brother of onetime heavyweight champion William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; in Schenectady. In poor health, temporarily insane, he shot and killed his wife Edna Dempsey, 21, then himself...
Bottomland. Because Clarence Williams, Negro radio entertainer, is popular "on the air," he thought himself capable of presenting a successful Negro revue. This was a mistake. His show, full of poor white pretensions, ineffective gusto, and brown whirligigs will probably not last long enough to harm greatly his reputation...
...like a delicatessen-storekeeper." He has a fit of epilepsy: "Fancy sharing your bed with a man who is in the habit of turning into a corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia. Fed it to my little pet rabbit. . . . Buried my little pet rabbit...