Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poor little purse-proud puppets . . . these little pen-pushers...
...proceeded for an hour and a quarter, but his system was still not fully relieved of bile. In a final orgasm of accusation he gave utterance to his long-festering abomination of the press gallery, which has repeatedly declared itself bored by his bombast. "Poor little purse-proud puppets," he sneered, "holding out their hands to get something scurrilous to write about a man who is trying to serve his country." The six gazers quickly reported the matter to their fellows, who, by tradition, leave the gallery when the Senator from Alabama rises...
...tests for fitness now employed by the Yale examiners give a reasonably secure basis for selection. About eight men in a hundred drop out of college during Freshman year by reason of poor scholarship. A considerable proportion of these failures is due to financial or other hardship and not to incapacity. In Yale College, the wastage for all causes for the whole period covered by the Alumni Directory is but 12.9 per cent through the year 1917, and but 16.2 per cent with the war period included...
...directors of the Western Conference are possessed of an admirable sense of sportsmanship. They have made a game out of proselytizing. Given, a high school halfback and ten college coaches. Object: who gets the halfback? Rules: the above. As the new code says, "any resort to improper methods is poor sportsmanship...
Polykushka, however, is showing. Its simple story is the tragedy of a 19th Century serf, a drunkard and a petty thief. His mistress forgives him a serious larceny, provided he swear on the Cross to mend his ways. This the poor wretch solemnly does, whereupon, to prove her faith in him, the benefactress despatches him to bring a purse of rubles from the village. In the course of the errand, the money is accidentally lost. The miserable serf hangs himself from a rafter in the barn, while an honest traveler returns the money found along the roadside, to the owner...