Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army's "Ginger Group," had glorious news last week from Shanghai where a Japanese squadron is commanded by his brother Rear Admiral Sadasuke Araki. The glorious news: somebody had murdered a Japanese Marine in full uniform near the Japanese Naval headquarters. At this news in utter panic rich & poor Chinese alike fled from Chapei in the native quarter of Shanghai to the International Settlement which proved safe in 1932 when the Japanese blew Chapei to bloody smithereens. If the Araki Brothers were at it again, then woe to China, no matter who murdered the Japanese Marine. As a matter...
...Curley himself, but it appears obvious that the Bar saw a glaring injustice in the Baker appointment and voiced its unqualified disapproval as under our form of government all citizens have a right to do. The Association was certainly not dictating an appointment, merely trying to prevent a poor...
...tonight in the building at 14 Plympton Street Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, president, will describe the competitions; and the specific work will be outlined by Stanley C. Salmen '36, Managing Editor; Henry V. Poor '36, Editorial Chairman; John Hartwell '36, Circulation Manager; Frederick T. Barrett '37, Assistant Business Manager, and Philip Nightingale '37, Photographic Chairman...
...robust, blue-eyed, life-loving son of a poor watchmaker, Beaumarchais won the attention of Louis XV when he devised an escapement for clocks, fought with a rival watchmaker who claimed his invention. He became the protégé of a minor palace official, purchased the office of secretary of the royal kitchens, which paid a small salary but opened opportunities for graft, even more opportunities to collect valuable information. He probably killed his patron, although the charge was never proved. He certainly married his patron's wealthy widow soon afterward. But at her death he was unexpectedly...
...attacked by a jealous nobleman whose mistress he had stolen. His release from prison after this scandalous affair made him a popular hero, since it was considered a triumph over arrogant nobles. His pamphlets and the success of The Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa of Austria when he tried to blackmail her with a pamphlet relating that her daughter, Marie Antoinette, would...