Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown game developed a fairly strong running attack which, however, bogged down at several points, due both to poor blocking and general lack of spark in the team. Also the game showed that the Varsity pass defense still leaves much to be desired. The Army execution of flat passes is bound to be more finished than Browns, yet Brown completed five...
...Novelist Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Gone With the Wind, Harry Slattery, South Carolina-born personal assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, was outraged to read of an offensive poor white named Tom Slattery, considered suing for libel. Promptly Novelist Mitchell announced she had named her Georgia farmer Slattery "purely by chance, intending no malice," sent Mr. Slattery an autographed copy of her book. Said he, appeased: "A charming, amusing, vivid young woman...
...Bedford, and a new group in Boston. There admit elementary and high school teachers. In addition there is a Western Massachusetts College Teachers group, composed mainly of Smith College professors. Officials of the Harvard group admitted that compared to such states as Ohio and New York, this is poor showing. However, at the convention of the Federation last August it was voted that funds should be made available for organization work on a regional basis. According to this plan Massachusetts will receive a sum from the national organization to extend memberships...
...Like the poor, the prophets and holy men of Dorchester are always with us. That crusader against the red menace. that protector of the young, Mr. Dorgan, gladly offered himself up on the altar of publicity for his cause last spring. Another doughty warrior of Dorchester now appears upon the scene waving a banner emblazoned with the glorious words: "It is perfectly obvious to anyone that the registration and voting in this city has been crooked for years...
...filled with bustle but productive of no visible results. How much of his college life has been precisely like today! Wake at three minutes to nine--too late for his first class--toss till quarter to ten when up and a hasty brushing of his teeth and a poor shave with four bad nicks to staunch with stypic pencil. To breakfast at Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back to his Attic and his best suit...