Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner Martin, no Creole, calls himself an Acadian (i. e. descended from Acadian exiles). But nobody except a jesting friend or a bold enemy would call him "Cajun," a term usually applied to semiliterate or illiterate poor folk of French descent.-ED. No Shorts Sirs: On Sept. 23, p. 13, you stated in your publication that Airs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "spent a morning at her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach...
...Moaned Farmer Crempa: "Thomas McCarter, president of the P. S. C., used the courts against me. If the P. S. C. didn't come around and string wires on my land my wife would be alive." For Big Business-haters it was enough that a poor man had lost his wife in a dispute with a rich corporation. But, in the roar of public indignation against P. S. C. which went up last week, mention of just where the corporation had gone wrong was notably lacking. Fact was, John Crempa had set himself up not against...
...China thus busy with matters more practical than fighting Japan, the Nanking Government has had to have a Premier whom Japanese would consider pro-Japanese, this remarkable Chinese being Mr. Wang Ching- wei. When he himself could no longer stomach his sickening role and resigned "because of my poor health, which is very real" (TIME, Aug. 26), the Japanese Government applied pressure which forced Generalissimo Chiang to oblige Mr. Wang to get well overnight and carry on as Premier. "Japan Is Fully Prepared." Premier Wang and his Cabinet play their roles as a coop full of apparently chicken- hearted Chinese...
...thus: ". . . We have treated ourselves to many old friends and private prejudices. And this is as it should be. An anthologist, however austere he may prefer to be, however much under the shadow of the classroom, is unlucky if, at the end of his labors, he cannot say, A poor unfavored thing, sir, but mine own." Heaven may forgive his indecision and the falterings of his taste provided he has kept the ardor of his heart...
...party that Alice goes to in last year's gown with her brother in the rain. There is something pathetic and yet faintly comic about her poor little deceptions and her bright efforts to make a go of it. And the whole business is done with restraint. The brother's clothes are just a little off without being ridiculous; his semi-hick manner of dancing is funny without being farce. When Alice is snubbed she is gently snubbed...