Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furrier's young wife. To her apartment last week came a man. Mrs. Sagerman listened to the man explain that he was a doctor and that her husband had sent him to give her a physical examination. She submitted to it. Said the man: "Your circulation is very poor. I'm afraid you'll have to take an extra hot bath before I can make a thoroughly satisfactory examination." Mrs. Sagerman hid her $1,000 engagement ring and $19.40 under a pillow. When she came from the bath, money, ring & doctor were gone. "He was a fake...
...Poor People of the stage, of whom there are plenty, read wistfully in last week's Variety (theatrical trade paper) that Al Jolson has rejected an offer of $20,000 a week for an indefinite period to appear in the prolog at the Capitol cinema theatre in Manhattan. Mr. Jolson has money, a million or more; worries about his health. Eva Le Gallienne has no faith in her belief. She believes that the state should endow a low-priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict...
SATURDAY'S CHILDREN?The poor, with us again in a true love story. Ruth Gordon playing brilliantly...
...discharged through the efforts of Judge Frederick Bausman. Judge Bausman recently contributed an anti-British article to the American Mercury, which is edited by Mr. Henry L. Mencken. Every loyal supporter of Mayor Thompson wishes that these gentlemen will have a happy and successful lion hunt. It would be poor sportsmanship to wish anything else, or to point out that not only the Revolutionary War, but all succeeding ones, are now concluded by treaties of peace...
...Crimson took it in its stride, The Dartmouth took it hard. The score was indeterminate, the game inconsequential the net results of inestimable value. It has been rumored abroad, and even in this country, that the titanic struggle would not be staged in the Stadium, and Lo, the poor Indian, it wasn't. It was staged, nevertheless, in the midst of an inordinate gloom. Clouds hung low, spirits lower; the results were utter depth. There was no farthest south...