Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Socialist municipal government of Vienna announced last week that to each babe of poor parentage hereafter born in the municipal area there will be furnished free a complete "layette" or outfit of linen necessities, and two large sheets. Mothers with twins or triplets may claim two or three "layettes," as the case may be; but only two full sized sheets will be supplied in each maternal case, though it be quintuplets...
...something attractive to sell, and also has the knack of putting himself forward, of advertising himself, he san get a great deal. If he has merely merit, but cannot make people want him, he gets very little. And the good scholar, the cogent thinker, is often a very poor advertiser...
Bishop Diaz is secretary of the Mexican Episcopate and has long denounced President Calles for trying to subordinate the Roman Catholic Church to the Mexican Government. President Calles?solicitous for his poor, degraded, mean electorate?wants to cut down on the vested interests of the comparatively rich Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate...
Died. William E. Knox, 64, onetime (1925) president of the American Bankers' Association; by shooting himself while in the restroom of the Bowery Savings Bank. He went to work for this bank 40 years ago, was elected president in 1922. For several recent months he had been in poor health, nervous; became dejected at the recent arrest of three of his clerks for embezzlement. Stated the bank trustees: "There was nothing whatever in the condition of the bank or his relations to the bank that was not in every way satisfactory." Last month they re-elected him president...
...backer for his play, none other than the superbly proper, anti-theatrical Vice Chancellor, whose frolicking son marries the leading lady of the "Wells", Miss Trelawny. This is one of Dramatist Pinero's early plays, yet it does not have the mutton-chop sleeves of his later pity-poor-Paula scenes...