Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture depicts the mishaps of one Christopher Freyman (Jean Hersholt), bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot: Chris and a friend (Allen Jenkins) making the jeering louts...
...explanation for his recent resignations from the boards of General Electric, New York Central and Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Nor was any explanation given last week when he left two other traditional Baker seats, U. S. Steel and Pullman. Reports were that Mr. Baker was in poor health. On his shoulders still rest directorships in General Motors Corp., Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, Provident Loan Society, American Museum of Natural History, New York Public Library. Like his father before him, Banker Baker would probably let only Death sever his connection with American Telephone & Telegraph...
...started drawing? Well, he always liked to draw. There was a barber in our neighborhood who used to give Walter 25? a week for a picture, something about his barbershop. Walter was seven or eight years old then. He paid for his haircuts that way. . . . Walter is a poor hand to write. We just hear from him about twice a year...
Abraham Lincoln took his share of ridicule as a poor railsplitter, prompting the Stephen Douglas followers to intone monotonously...
...when "the shops were slices of honeycomb full of honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...