Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons given by the New York paper for national hostility to an amendment were: voters object that regulation would seriously discourage business; voters charge that the A. A. A. and N. R. A. have proved the government a poor administrator...
Other members of the committee are: Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, Milton G. Green '36, Robert C. Hall '36, Henry V. Poor '36, Thomas H. Quinn '36, and LeMoyne White...
...valley where the stream of Permanent Neutrality flowed along an uncertain course. Along its shore stood the chilled, dripping figures of little European boys, gazing wistfully across. The American child had never tried the stream, but he was sturdy, surely he could jump it at one bound. The poor little foreigners, he was certain, were not strong enough to try; just sissies, always cheating when they played "Cops and Robbers". Brightly he ran up to the bank, jeering at the other despondent children...
...Poor Joe" About to depart for a vacation at Palm Beach, Hamlet Smith took a brief curtain to reply to Senator Robinson. As if weeping over the skull of a departed Yorick, he lamented: "Poor Joe -I'm sorry for him; they put him on a tough spot. He did the best he knew how, but it was no answer. As I said in my speech . . . there is only one man who should try to answer me. . . .* I was an 'Unhappy Warrior' to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt...
Henry Varnum Poor...