Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer claims to be poor.* He insists he can't pay his old debts, much less contract fresh ones for such new-fangled electrical equipment. So in an attempt to elevate his economic standing and put electric milkers, pigpen warmers and auto- matic cornhuskers within his reach, the Committees on Agriculture of the House and Senate last week began hearings on legislation for his relief...
...stars are nearly all on hand just now. Lenore Ulric brings her blandishments to Belasco's "Mima", fairly swarming with devils and nightly shaking the stage when its steel hell collapses in the denouement. There is Katharine Cornell in a poor dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel, "The Age of Innocence", the star at her finest and given brilliant support in a stuffy play by Arnold Korff. Alice Brady graces with effective acting the rather trivial play based on the old badger game, "A Most Immoral Lady...
...closing, I should like to say that the club sincerely hopes to obtain before its fall production an undergraduate play of real merit. Meanwhile it feels that it has a good musical comedy written by an undergraduate, which it demes more expedient to offer than a poor play. Very truly yours, E. T. Batchelder '30. Production Manager...
...Harvard CRIMSON there are still innumerable columns devoted to such questions as "Was or was not the House Plan railroaded through the Faculty?" Every professor at Harvard has been harried into hibernation, until he has expressed his opinion on this "greatest change of the century." And woe befall the poor man who hesitates and qualifies...
Died. Alexander Melville, of Glasgow, who wrote many of Scotch Comedian Harry Lauder's famed songs ("Killie-crankie," "Tobermory," "Risin' Early in the Mornin' "); in Glasgow. He, liberal, grew poor, lived on the charity of friends...