Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CONGRESS). But Congress could not silence embarrassing remarks by citizens such as one Harold Leavey of Brooklyn, N. Y., father of one of the embarking Marines. Said Mr. Leavey: "The boys are being sent to fight for the Wall Street brokers, not Uncle Sam. I'm only a poor milkman and I need my boy more than they...
Fortunately-at least for such poor-proud folk-the French concept of a policeman's duty is paternal. It was so interpreted, last week, by M. Jean Chiappe, the Prefect of Police of Paris. With firm wisdom M. le Préfet ordered his gendarnes to take into custody every vagrant. Soon, in warm Paris jails, the needy were served hot soups and stews which they could accept without loss of honor. When the weather moderated they were released...
Born in a poor stone hut, there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
...ruin him. He sued to examine the books of the Bank, in which he held stock, charging mismanagement of funds. How much of this tangle was truth and how much bad temper the world will never know. Last week the million dollar suits were discontinued with a hand shake. Poor people looked wistfully over the list of famed lawyers that had worked on the case, Charles Evans Hughes, Max D. Steuer, Hiram C. Todd, John Proctor Clarke, John W. Davis, etc. Such legal leviathans are often paid $5,000 for mere preliminary opinions. If they so wished they could exist...
Resolved to die poor, Publisher George G. Booth, son-in-law of the late James Edmund Scripps, newspaper owner, added $6,500,000 to the $5,000,000 he and his wife have already given to complete Cranbrook Foundation-"cultural centre" of five schools and a church-on his estate in northern Michigan (Bloomfield Hills). A children's school and a boy's school, already open, will be followed by a school for girls. They will finally prepare for college, or encourage the talented to enter the school of arts and crafts and the academy...