Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chase, his early cavalry training, his duel with the English ace, Major Lanoe G. Hawker, whose plane he brought down after a fierce, magnificent combat, the producers waste three-quarters of the film telling a poppycock love story about one of his friends. Most of the photography is poor. One of the rare good shots: newsreel of the actual crowd waiting in Berlin streets to see Richthofen's body carried by. Gold Diggers of Broadway (Warner). Avery Hopwood's comedy about a rich man who tried to save his heir from a chorus girl is the framework...
...crippled Chancellor had spoken into the microphone from his easy chair at the Chancellor's official residence, No. 10 Downing Street. He knew that all Belgium read his words next day, yet he called the distinguished Prime Minister of that friendly state "poor Jaspar."* Careless of affront to Japan, he spoke of Dr. Mine- ichira Adachi, Chief of the Japanese Delegation, as "the quiet, plaintive Adachi." The whole speech bristled with that same humoring superiority?that air of considering other statesmen mere children? which infuriated the Latin statesmen at The Hague to the point of tantrums and tears...
...told me you had a very kind heart,' said poor Jaspar, 'but we have never met a man like...
...were tolerantly received by Dr. M. Gumpert, director of the Bureau and a plastic surgeon of renown. They did not quite understand, he said. There will be no free "cosmetics" as that frivolous term is commonly understood. Instead, the Bureau will try earnestly and scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts...
...occasion of the opening of the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, Lord Leverhulme attributed his success to his wife's "gracious influence," adding, however, that it would be a poor compliment to her to say that she was a business woman. "She was a womanly woman and her knowledge of business was nil." During the last few years of his life he rose at 4:30 a. m., spent 20 minutes in exercises, anticipated Calvin Coolidge in the use of an electric horse. For some years, however, he rode each morning a flesh-and-blood horse, always went...