Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first novel, it is distinctly commendable. The young lady knows whereof she writes, on both sides of the argument, and she writes with the vivacity and warmth of Irish blood reared "down South." None knows better than she the tragedy of good taste ruined by poor execution. She has labored over her execution until it is deft and capable except for the first-novelist's last fault, propping the characters up and making them expound the argument sometimes...
...Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well" (TIME, April 11, p. 28). One more sad blunder of newspaper Babbittry. If you have a library, and Shakespeare in it, look up the most misquoted line in literature, and reform...
...Speaking in Philadelphia last fortnight, Sir Charles Higham, British tea man, told the Poor Richard Club that President Coolidge is the best dressed man in the U. S., one of the few U. S. men who have their shoes shined. Later, Robert Barry, New York World correspondent, unearthed the following details concerning the President's attire...
...Capital is guaranteed the right of Property, the right to pay good labor more than poor*, and the right to undertake capitalistic enterprises on private initiative...
...play are Negroes lends a flavor of piquancy to what might otherwise be an undistinguished dish of canned melodrama. The heroine is forced by poverty and misunderstanding, from one man's bosom to another's, thereby irritating her husband into catastrophic petulance. He does his beastly best, poor fellow, in the third act, never realizing that deep down she loved him always. "Earnest but crude," said generous critics...