Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thank God, they couldn't put me in the electric chair. I dare say Mr. Davis would like to if he could. Poor little me, why did they consider me a dangerous woman...
...opera by Eleanor Everest Freer* Chicago society leader, had its first performance last week in Philadelphia in the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Music Club and the Philadelphia Operatic Society. The libretto by Elia Wilkinson Peattie tells the story of Massimilliano, a poor jester with a great hump for a back, who loving a great lady leaves a kiss on her hand and dies. Philadelphians liked hearing an opera in English, welcomed the efforts of Composer Freer, politely, cordially...
There live in rural territory 50,000,000 people. Those isolated especially in the mountain regions, suffer considerably from poor light and insufficient heat in their homes, ignorance of proper food preparations, ignorance of the transmission of diseases, absence of sanitation, early marriages with a high death rate for mothers and children, and the lack of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and dispensaries. In one North Carolina county 5,000 people, half of the population, were examined for hookworm; 42% were infected. Trachoma, the highly infectious eye disease, was present in 2.3% of 816 children seen...
...Department of Agriculture recommends that hospitals be created as county institutions. Where the county is too poor, it suggests that a medical district be created by the co-operation of two or more counties. Town hospitals should spread news of their facilities to the surrounding farms...
Darnley was with her when their baby (James VI) was born; thenceforth he was politically a cypher. Scottish coins bearing their joint effigy were recalled. Feigning reconciliation she tempted him from the security of his father's castle and a crowd of his own retainers. The poor fool was strangled at Kirk-o'-Field by Rizzio's murderers, whom he had betrayed and Mary had pardoned...