Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they want...
...Moscicki at Spala, where he had gone for a brief vacation, it appeared to cause surprise, consternation. Soon the flustered President sped to Warsaw, consulted earnestly with the real master of Poland, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who insists upon remaining technically War Minister, though actually Dictator. Emerging from this conference, poor puppet President Moscicki intimated that the Marshal had again refused to accept the Prime Ministry himself and saw no reason for accepting the resignation of M. Kasimir Bartel, just because he thinks he needs a rest...
...must know ourselves! We must confess that we are terribly poor and that our people are suffering miseries which justly horrify the civilized peoples. We must confess that our political life is corrupt to the core, and that most of our homes are nests of crime, of injustice, oppression, lynching and suicide...
...Beloit, Wis., heirs of the late Mrs. Erne Gunderson found her large home packed with 50 house dresses, 30 pairs of shoes, unhung pictures, linen, scarfs, table and kitchenware, all unused. Explanation: Mrs. Gunderson, long poor and suddenly come into money, bought everything for which all her life she had wished to shop...
...when they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor's name is not announced, the British listener can concentrate satisfactorily, enjoys the auditory image...