Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Dunn had tried to get work or relief for the poor Parkers. The District authorities, said the Congressman, had told Parker to go back to Tennessee. When it was discovered that "this little woman was about to become a mother again," Father Parker was turned away by the Public Health Service when he asked to have his wife taken to a hospital. Finally Representative Dunn got her a permit to go to a hospital. The Mississippi Congressman continued: "She was told to go back home and there to repose herself as best she could until she came to that...
...King Edward VIII announced that he will carry on his late father's revival of the old custom of personally giving, on Maundy Thursday (April 9), Maundy Money to "deserving" poor to the number of the King...
...self-punishment. Paul Gauguin had had nothing to do with it beyond the fact that he had spent Christmas Eve in his friend's company. The two lived to rank among the greatest of French modernists. Both were mouse-poor and half-insane when they died. Both have been made the protagonists of best-selling novels.* Last week Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries did its best to give Paul Gauguin a memorial show to match the great van Gogh exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art (TIME...
...their first victory over the Blue in four years. Coach Grasson felt that the judging was prejudiced against his team and took no pains to conceal his emotions. Rene Peroy, Crimson mentor, refused to get excited about the meet and simply said "Grasson is always a very poor loser...
...Mountain a poor family within a few rice grains of starvation sells the oldest 'daughter, Kimi, to a procurer when she is not yet 16. She is apprenticed to a house in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo, where the streets are well kept and the architecture more uniform than in most other quarters. When her year's apprenticeship is up and she is ready for work, a rich businessman named Yamano takes a liking to her, reserves her for himself. Naive, lonely, she is soon fond...