Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian faith in this people's rights-a day of strong, inflexible faith in the destiny of the Fatherland! The war in East Africa is a war of civilization, a war which our people feel is a thing of their own. It is a war of the poor, a war of the proletariat against egotism and hypocrisy, against crooked Europe...
...steal our poor hearts, precious...
...great cutup, he goes in for such japes as spreading strange lingerie around the home in his wife's absence to see what she will do upon her return. Irregularities like these have evoked such effusive sympathy for Miss Hayes that her husband once thought of founding a Poor Helen Club. But the organization seems unnecessary. The MacArthurs' private life in their big white Victorian house at Nyack, N. Y. is probably as serene as the average...
...Ambassador Augusto Rosso with their respective staffs at lavish stag dinners in Washington's Shoreham Hotel. Joe Davies' best bet seems to be the U. S. Embassy in Paris, for Jesse Straus, present U. S. Ambassador to France, is supposed to be ready to retire because of poor health. Some opposition for the Paris post might come from Anthony J. Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., who is also rich and only Minister to Norway...
...amorous buffoon and gossip" of the Diaries, but a busy little executive, years ahead of his easy-going times, appears from Author Bryant's pages. At 36 Pepys may have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed...