Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many of whom buy goods on the installment plan. I disapprove of this practice, for, as I said last week, 'The only profit out of installment buying goes to the men who make the sales, and sometimes to the banks who handle the papers, but never to the poor devil who owes and must...
...Neil Martin) on Columbia University's Broadway campus. Even before classes have fairly begun, he is in love with a chorus girl. Mother and brother are powerless to interfere. Not till the unfortunate chorus girl confides that she is possessed of a hidden liability five months old does poor Teddy go back to his books, a sadder and a wiser man. The best reason for visiting Charles Hopkins Theatre these days is to see the little theatre itself...
...circularize through the mail. "If Paul of Tarsus [loud cheers for Paul, 'the first Christian go-getter'] was not above inditing epistles to Thessalonia, I'm not above writing letters to the Bronx." When a belated spark of rebellion lights up Mr. Midge's poor soul, family responsibilities smother it to death. Mr. McEvoy's brilliant lines are aided by effective staging in the "constructivist" technique-spotlighting that reveals, in various quarters and levels of the same stage, several different offices, the Midge parlor, a radio concert in the making, and other snapshots of life...
...Baby.-How to beget a child in time to benefit from a rich relative's will is the problem. Although no one in the audience seemed to care very much, the poor but deserving, secretly married couple had another secret in reserve all the while...
...brought a determined team to Princeton and very nearly tied the Tigers, who eked out a narrow triumph, 7 to 6. The winners missed three chances to score when the Lehigh defense stiffened and held for downs. Both scores came as direct results of forward passes and a poor kick for the point after touchdown was all that saved the Orange and Black from being tied for the second time this year...