Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feelings, but I doubt if you have any feelings to hurt. . . . Some of you Congressmen who are opposing this bill were born with a gold spoon in your mouth, and you are still feeding out of it. . . . Some of you others, before you came here to Congress, were as poor as church mice, and perhaps would have been in the soup line by this time except you grabbed hold of the public teat and have been milking $10,000 a year out of the taxpayers. You would really be worth more to the nation if you were cleaning...
...DeLee (originally d'Lee) founded Chicago's Lying-in Hospital in 1895 when Chicago's poor mothers could get no decent midwifery, when he was abysmally poor and four years out of Chicago Medical College (now part of Northwestern University). After the Women's Christian Temperance Union had ignored him, he turned to Chicago Jews who gave him a total of $500. A Christian doctor gave him a stove, a table, some chairs and an old carpet. His family supplied linen. From a second-hand store he got two beds. With that he started Chicago...
...There once was a doctor whose name was DeLee Best of obstetrical doctors was he. Expensive for rich, for the poor he was free This wonderful Dr. DeLee. A wonderful doctor is Dr. DeLee Bringing in babies by one, two and three, His movies will show to all posterity The marvels of Dr. DeLee...
...Ford dealer discounts were only 17%, far below the profit margin allowed by other motormakers. Then after Son Edsel Ford began to speak up more frequently at company councils, the rate was upped to 20%. Another boost to 22% soon followed. Last week, in the wake of a poor first quarter showing, Ford again hiked its dealer discounts, this time...
...entertainments, lovely French girls, and lots of wine, with a little fighting thrown in to keep everyone in trim. Mr. Brown clowns through this inane plot in a pleasant, fairly amusing way, assisted by Joan Blondell. The stage show, headed by M. Tito Guizar, is incredibly poor. It's hard to tell whether Guizar is trying to be Mexican, Spanish or Italian, but it doesn't matter much. The revue is billed as "especially produced for Metropolitan patrons," which just goes to show what the management thinks of its customers...