Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except a few who have struck oil on their land allotments, and now ride around in straight-eights, most of the Indians are still poor enough to need Government...
Subway Sadie (Dorothy MacKaill, Jack Mulhall). Out of material rich enough for genuine epic drama, they have extracted common cinema slush. The roaring subway," the jostled crowds are employed as sentimental background for a nitwit who wants to go to Paris more than anything else, but marries a poor subway guard instead. The guard turns out to be the son of the subway system's owner, so she goes to Paris after...
...striking out in such an original vein as that. Nor would Mark Twain have dared to go against every canon of good taste in literature and turn out The Innocents Abrind if he had sat beneath the elms of good old Yale. Twain struck out for himself and his poor taste was so funny that it made a new kind of literature in which taste did not seem to enter...
...Wells took honors in zoology in a college of science; Robert Hichens attended a college of music; Thomas Hardy acquired an education at evening classes in King's College, London; Kipling went to the United Service College, not an institution famous for turning out literati George Bernard Shaw, a poor scholar, left school at fifteen, and plunged into the literary world through the medium of a real-estate office...
...expect the largest squad in history to report next Monday," declared E. L. Casey '19. Freshman football coach in an interview yesterday. "I want every former football player out, no matter how poor he thinks...