Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this boy, poor but honest, or just pretty poor. If so, how poor...
...limited experience both as student and teacher in other educational Institutions outside our own leads me to the suspicion that many of our smaller colleges have ceased to do any serious work in Greek, and some of the universities perforce by reason of the poor preparation of their students have degenerated into one sort or other of parlor-Greek. It is refreshing to me to be at Harvard once again, where for a student of Greek a thorough knowledge of the language is not an otiose desirability, but a necessity. Very sincerely yours, Arthur M. Young...
...definition is unnecessary. What escapes definition is this: why should talk that would be only mildly witty coming from the mouths of imaginary characters be continuously entertaining when imagined as spouting from mythical Helen of Troy, legendary Galahad or biblical Eve? Here is the triangle of Eve, Lilith, and poor old Adam, who gets tossed up and down in the web of their attractions like a fresh-man in a blanket. First Lilith gets him, then Eve, then Lilith, then Eve. (Then he gets a son. The gaieties of Author Erskine's dialog which can be so easily minimized...
...married, father of Edith and Edward, suddenly breaks with a frantic gesture out of the insurance business by means of which he has been supporting his family in good style. Eagerness for variety makes him go so far as to try to sell a mechanical device for automobiles. Poor returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling and normality. The result of this is a novel that...
...included a wealth of descriptive and dramatic detail,--excerpts from psychiatrists' reports, selections from letters, transcripts from diaries, bits of testimony,--worked in with the essential facts of each crime. And so skillfully is it done that the imaginings of a Conan Doyle or an Arthur Train seem like poor, pale stuff in comparison...