Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prison for conspiracy to defraud the Government in the Veterans' hospital scandal (TIME, March 29), which like the oil scandal spread its shadow over the Harding Administration. His fellow conspirator, John W. Thompson, likewise convicted, did not enter the prison because his lawyers represented that his health was poor. The Court ordered the lawyers to make a final argument in Chicago this week. Last week, however, Mr. Thompson, 64 and worried, died of a heart attack...
...GREAT GOD BROWN - An expressionistic work by Eugene O'Neill in which a rich man appropriates the poor man's brain...
England's gypsy tribes, many of them, are unusual in this respect: unlike the nomadic folk of other countries they are not Romanies* but Englishmen. During famines and plagues and-as in the legendary case of Robin and his merrie men-during political upheavals, poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today...
...ladies and gentlemen on their tall horses to find, chase and kill, with due ceremony, that somewhat mystical reddish mister, Dan Russell the fox, with impudent wisdom seeking sanctuary from a choir of hounds. There is a mighty steeplechase with the bookies hawking odds, the hoofs thundering and two poor jocks killed. There is lambing-time, on the spring hills thinly lit with frost and starlight; and coursing the whippets after Pussy, the dodging hare; and benign old gentlemen in red coats "hacking bitterly at small white balls and saying very evil phrases...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont is, so far as American women go, a great lady, a very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing...