Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basketball. At the Communist capital of Yenan the generalissimo could generally be found after hours at one or another of the city's eight basketball courts, waiting humbly in line for some team captain to pick him for a team. Despite his enthusiasm, the generalissimo is a poor hand at dribbling and passing. Very often he must sit with the subs. To his followers last week General Chu sent this message...
...strings. Gruenberg's quintet, wandering among E minor and related keys, sounded cool, intellectual, mathematical. But listeners who knew him were pleased that the judges had awarded the $1,000 to one who would not write skin-deep music for anyone's money. Son of a poor Russian violinist who brought him to Manhattan's East Side as a baby, Composer Gruenberg, 54. is dreamy, soft-voiced, soft-eyed. He studied piano under Ferruccio Busoni, became dissatisfied even though his teacher said he had "God-graced hands." Gruenberg's early, romantic Hill of Dreams...
Dead End (Samuel Goldwyn). Most Manhattan streets come to a dead end at the East River. This, and the fact that often on Manhattan's East Side only a course of masonry separates the triplex apartments of the rich from the cold-water flats of the poor, were about all Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) needed to write one of the most successful plays of the 1935 Broadway season. A large measure of its success was due to Norman Bel Geddes' superrealistic set and to the children Messrs. Geddes & Kingsley cast as the gang which contributed most...
...curled. They flared up. Mrs. Hoag started rescuing her dolls, screaming, "save my babies!" Hurried to a hospital where she was treated for severe burns. Mrs. Hoag returned to the wreckage of her building, grieved over the charred arms, legs, heads, torsos of dolls. Wailed she: "Oh, my poor, poor babies. And to think I might have saved them all from this...
...tired of gallivanting about the world, came to spend a holiday near the farm. Claude was glad to have him there but they had little to say to each other but "Do you remember-?" When Claude went back to Javrezac to a family reunion, found herself the only undoubted poor relation, she returned to the farm convinced her life was an unhappy failure, but resigned to spending the rest of it as a disillusioned wife and overworked mother. One day she realized that she and Philippe were in love. But nothing came of it. Philippe went away, leaving Claude...