Word: poore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With grave simplicity and courtesy the Municipal Council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz gathered last week in their still, solemn council room. On a table was a check for $100,000 left "to the poor Jews of Bydgoszcz," by one Mrs. Leonard Cohen, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. With gravity the Council deliberated, then ordered that a polite note be penned to the executors of the will refusing the money, stating that "there are no poor Jews in Bydgoszcz...
...remaining scholarships are open to all students in the University and are as follows: The Frederick E. Parlin scholarships of $1250, established under the will of A. N. Parlin for poor and deserving students in any department of the University, preferably natives of Malden or Everett; the Alan Hudson scholarship of $250, available first to descendants of Alan Bedford Hudson, second to deserving students of Hudson or Baxendale, and third to students from Brockton or Bourne; the Baxendale scholarship of $250, which is available to deserving students under the same conditions and in the same preference as the Alan Hudson...
Resigned. U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont of Delaware; from the Senate, because of poor health...
...Santos-Dumont quit his placid retirement in Paris for a gala demonstration in Rio. He has lived in France some 30 years, earning aeronautical reputation as a pioneer builder & flyer of dirigibles, as an early (1906) builder & flyer of an airplane; popular reputation as a feeder of Paris' poor...
...them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear to remember their assigned roles. Said Lawrence Gilman in the Herald Tribune: "Miss Shuchari gave a creditable conservatory performance, flawed by occasional impurity of intonation, poor tone quality, inaccurate double-stopping, and an infelicitous delivery of the finale, which she played awkwardly, timidly, and insecurely. . . . Miss Kerr's pretty and facile playing was swamped in the tides of Rachmaninoff's grandiloquence." Pitts Sanborn wrote in the Telegram of the Brahms as "nothing...