Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Queen Marie had remarked to a physician: "It is less than four months since the King [Ferdinand I, her husband] died (TIME, Aug. 1). . . . Now another great figure is in the shadows of Death. . . . Poor Rumania has many crosses to bear...
...Washington. There followed study in New York, with Farrar the Student a frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszké, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
Last week President Ricardo Jimenez of Costa Rica issued a call for songs "fresh and luxuriant from our farms and our rivers, not withered from the cabarets," songs to defend his people "from the tremendous invasion of poor songs that cross the frontier to spoil our pleasure." Two annual national contests will be held, the material gleaned to be compiled into a book on native music...
...shipbuilding, armament and heavy engineering industries still suffer the after-effects of the War. As result the British iron & steel trade (notably Vickers Ltd., and Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.) has suffered. Last year and the year before Armstrong, Whitworth had heavy losses. Vickers's earnings have been so poor that the company two years ago reduced its capital from $128,420,000 to $88,396,287, in order to make its dividend rate look respectable...
Husbands or Lovers provides somewhat sombre proof that immorality is poor policy. The wife (Elizabeth Bergner) leaves her husband (Emil Jannings) for a lover (Conrad Veidt) who grows tired of strenuous affection in a furnished room. At the last she decides the question of husband or lover by choosing neither and committing suicide. All this does not make for light entertainment; but, like most films made in Germany, the picture displays the advantages of intelligent direction with fine acting...