Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineup: KIRKLAND (12) WINTHROP (6) Pafford, le le, Cunningham Coleman, lt lt, Cole Arnold, lg lg, Moore Erlanger, c c, Campion Howe, rg rg, MacArthur Lagsdin, rt rt, Nelson Snyder, re re, Magrane Wills, qb qb, Butler Poor, hb hb, Lemke O'Kelly, hb hb, Cutter Cushman, fb fb, Flinn...
Only trouble with this type of campaign was that it did not make Socialist votes. Undeterred by the prospect that he would run a poor fourth in the election in spite of being on the ballot in more States (39) than any other third-party aspirant for the White House, indefatigable Mr. Thomas last week sallied forth into New England and New York to provide more free adult education...
Stravinsky's autobiography testifies to the fact that he at least is smugly sure of himself. He is self-critical only when speaking of his school days. He got consistently poor marks. His father, a basso at the Imperial Opera, wanted to make him a lawyer, consented to a musical career only when Rimsky-Korsakov was sufficiently impressed to take the boy for a pupil...
...Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore, his fellow Slav, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a genius of late greatly underrated. Stravinsky says he detests "star conductors" who pride themselves on their interpretations. According to Stravinsky's precepts the composer's notations should...
Thomas Sutpen arrived in Jefferson with a group of wild slaves, built himself a great mansion, married, raised a son Henry and a daughter Judith, became a Confederate colonel, died at the hand of a poor white squatter whose daughter he had seduced. Previously Sutpen had married in Haiti, left his wife when he discovered she had a-spot of Negro blood in her veins. But his son by this first marriage became Henry Sutpen's friend, fell in love with Judith, was at the point of marrying her, despite his knowledge of their kinship, when Henry killed...