Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beautiful Isle" Sirs: When I was a little girl my poor mother many an evening sang me "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," the song which you report Cardinal O'Connell of Boston denounces [TIME, Oct. 17]. She would hold me in her arms and sing the song over and over again. It soothed her poor heart for the untimely death of my little sister. Cardinal O'Connell can have had little no children die in his family, or he would not be so callous to such a consoling, lovely and song. please...
Last week sparse-haired, big-browed Walter Sherman Gifford, nervously alert A. T. & T. President, told a convention of railroad and utility commissioners at Dallas, Tex., that to cut a melon was poor policy. Said he: "Earnings must either be spent for the enlargement and improvement of the service furnished or the rates charged for the service must be reduced." And the A. T. & T. stock (which had risen during the year from a low price of 149¼ to a high price of 185½) sank to 173 as expectations of added profits vanished. Brokers trading...
...guitar whose dynamic physique had created a great longing in her. Bayliss meant external luxury, and she took him in form only. But the capitulation of sensitive women to such men as the Mad Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold as wild and intangible as Bayliss is. In fact, it was when she thought Bayliss was consoling himself with a Bohemian girl that Elsa ran hysterically down the hill to him, and thus their marriage became a verity...
...look of passion and tragedy without which "The Woman on Trial" might be interchanged with any other similar picture and no one would care much, even if he noticed the difference,. But there is a difference, and it is just the difference between the good and the poor...
...game today, Dartmouth lacked co-ordination except in a few flashes and our scores came at those times," said MacPhail. "Harvard had power right up to the final whistle, and fought hard, but the ends were poor. With them out it was easy to make long runs. The line was wonderful, and your center played a great game...