Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With ineffable humility the Son of Heaven indicated that the five best poems by commoners were to be read first-much as Alfonso XIII used personally to wash the dirty feet of twelve poor Spaniards each year on Maundy Thursday. Each Japanese commoner's poem was, however, rendered by the ceremonial chorus only once, those by Japanese Princes and Princesses of the Blood twice, and the Empress' poem three times. The poem composed by His Imperial Majesty in person was loudly, deeply and sonorously intoned once, twice, thrice, four times and yet again, in keeping with the dignity...
Scolding Yale alumni for the goal post riot which followed the last Yale-Princeton football game, Yale's President James Rowland Angell declaimed: "There will be no general, much less complete, cure until our American college groups, both graduate and undergraduate, come to realize that bad manners and poor sportsmanship are the marks of the mucker. . .." Honest President Angell stopped, reflected. "I have a piece of a goal post myself," he confessed, then quickly weaseled: "It was presented to me, however...
...Lyman Wilbur, who was to have read a report from the A. M. A. Council, stayed in Palo Alto, Calif, to nurse his bronchitis. By proxy he asserted: "The most hopeless mistake . . . is that of admitting poor students to large medical school classes. One may sympathize with struggling youth but should sympathize more with future patients...
...Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils, but only the rich have souls...
...best work on the new Government buildings in Washington is being done by artists of established reputation like George Biddle, Reginald Marsh, Henry Varnum Poor, Maurice Sterne...