Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possessed by each of the three fighting services and traditionally used to warp Government decisions in favor of that service. The British Admiralty naturally has always been strongest in these contests, the Royal Air Force has shot up recently to second place in "drag" and the Army makes a poor third in looking out for itself. In the services most of Sir Thomas' friends are Admiralty...
...thought long before replacing a threadbare carpet in his home. When he died at the end of 1873, he left some $7,000,000, nearly his whole fortune, half to found a university and half for a hospital which would be free to all of Baltimore's poor...
...Here is the boy (a light finds the face of Clyde on the dark stage). Here is one girl (a light finds Roberta). Here is another (out of the darkness springs the face of Sondra). Both are equally young, equally beautiful. But Sondra is rich, while Roberta is a poor factory girl. The story begins to unfold on the one articulated set 'at an accelerating pace. Now feeling as if he were in a nightmare, now as if he were in a lecture hall, the spectator watches Clyde's progress through his uncle's collar factory...
...Lombard into his private office, she says, "Mousieur" and one sees instantly what a cosmopolitan she is. It's too bad the way Hollywood is forced to grind out pictures in such a furious frenzy. Clearly there is no time to write the small talk in advance, and the poor scared actors and actresses have to make it up with the formidable cameras staring then down. The result is that one intuitively feels confident of having done slightly better at that last dance where he issued more yawns than words, and couldn't for the life of him remember...
What a party! And whatever the outcome, which ever side loses, whoever gets poor or gets rich...