Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband of Peggy Wood, has herewith written his first play. To assist him he found George Abbott who, with James Gleason, wrote The Fall Guy. Together they have fashioned a homely fable of those who watch the song and sorrow of metropolitan life from the cheap seats. Clerks and poor boardinghouse folk are their characters. Their touch is shrewd and their comedy genuinely entertaining...
Reaction. Mr. George upon hearing of Sir Alfred's resignation publicly branded him by an indirect reference to the biblical Judas, and directly charged that he had abandoned the Liberals because he saw "poor prospects for an ambitious man" in sticking to them, now that the party has lost its War preeminence...
...they [the Baptists]are poor people, and those among them who acquire property tend, like the rich Methodists, to ooze into the Protestant Episcopal Church, which is fashionable everywhere in the Republic save in rural New England." In such brazen tone he went his way. "The Baptists say they have 8,000,000 members in the United States. This includes 3,000,000 colored brethren, who are recognized as having souls but are not allowed to come to white churches." Repeatedly he jabbed at foot-washing, that Baptist gesture of humility. He made phrases: ". . . the rank and file keep...
Baptists are poor. They make no pretentions to wealth and power, even though they have occasional Rockefellers and Hardings and Lloyd Georges as life-long adherents to their simple, direct, Bible creed. They give their mites to charities, schools and missions. Their preachers are poorly paid, as are those in general of every creed and religion. Their pastors must work, and willingly, in professions and trades. But their calloused fingers can gently, reverently turn the Bible's pages. Of their donations: "The Northern Baptists seem to be just as stingy [as the Southern...
...women of various kinds of society and climate have had an unusual fling of popularity on the American stage in the last few years. Plays have been built upon those subjects which, in the words of "The Poor Nut," "It seems so public to talk about in private". Canny, producers with their ear to the ground have capitalized their patrons' taste for the salacious and thereby reaped a tritely-called golden harvest, "Rain"; although it deals frankly with the most delicate of subjects, has in it less of salacity than the average sophisticated revue. Unfortunately a not inconsiderable element...