Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Relenting the Secretary gave out a close-lipped interview: "There is nothing I can say about the debt accord; that passed out of our hands and went before Congress when Ambassador Berenger and I signed it. Of course, I advocate its ratification. It would be a poor agreement indeed if the man who wrote it did not support it. "Nobody expects the United States to try to ruin financially any nation which is trying to discharge her obligations...
Fine Manners (Gloria Swanson, Eugene O'Brien). Those primarily interested in the Marquise de la Falaise de la Coudraye will take pleasure in seeing her displayed over at least ninety-five per cent of the entire length of her newest film. Her story is that of a poor but honest lass from a downtown burlesque show. She is vital. She turns handsprings, plays with a parrot. She is not like the pale water flowers of young Mr. Alden's Park Avenue set. So Mr. Alden decides to marry her. But first she must learn fine manners. Alas! Fine...
...year-was in front. At one flank humped a dark witch-rabbity horse named Mars; at the other a little brown three-year old, William Ziegler's Espino. The bookies had Crusader at 4 to 5; Mars, they thought, was out of the running, and any poor fool who had a dollar to put on Espino could get ten back if that unruly horse was first. Maiben, up on Crusader, let an inch of rein slip through his hands; the huge horse lunged forward; Mars, his courage broken, slipped behind; only Espino hung on. Inch by inch, his jockey...
Married. Russell G. Medcraft, 27, co-author with Norma Mitchell of The Cradle Snatchers; to Jean May (real name Jean Pfeiffer), one-time "leading lady" of The Poor Nut; at Port Chester, N. Y. Accompanied by showfolk, the couple left a Manhattan party at midnight, motored to Port Chester, were married by a coatless, collarless police judge...
...simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction with strong bones...