Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breakfast and thence, very serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...
...forces of well-meaning but none too skillful Desta Demtu in open combat, attack them simultaneously with tanks, planes and two divisions of infantry, one white, one black. Honest Ras Desta Demtu would be an ideal Quartermaster General if Ethiopia had a modern army, but he is a poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced 142 miles in six days-a manifest impossibility...
Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' Creation she owns! We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame And we've salted it down with our bones (Poor beggars!-It's blue with our bones...
...civic duties. He headed the committee that welcomed Charles Evans Hughes when that GOPresidential nominee made his ill-fated visit to California in 1916. He was vice president of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, served on the board of regents of the University of California for two decades. In poor health of late, Mr. Crocker has been spending more & more time on his 523-acre estate with its 67-room house in swank Burlingame...
...Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario has a severe Latin countenance, a subtle, acute intelligence, keeps his fingers on every phase of his big bank's operations. Among his associates he is liked and admired but. reserved, taciturn, poor at public relations,, he has gained a host of bitter enemies...