Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept a weather eye on the vital 5,400,000-hectare wheat harvest now in full swing. High winds, heavy rains and floods in May kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna 75% of the wheat was so dashed that machines could not be used and peasants were bringing out their sickles for a slow, back-breaking...
...less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...composition, portraiture, drapery and the techniques of enlarging and reducing, Sculptor Putnam gracefully includes chapters on ceramics by Carl Walters, on stone and marble carving by Robert A. Baillie, on wood carving by Gleb Derujinsky and on bronze casting by Anton Basky. Her advice to sculptors: learn to be poor and keep in good condition...
Attendance was poor, artistic excellence nothing to cable about. Sir Thomas Beecham called it quits. Said he: "Support this year has been entirely inadequate. The public has not yet recovered from that contemptible condition of nervous prostration caused by the entirely anticipated events of last autumn and this spring." Declaring that he would never, never conduct opera again, Sir Thomas announced he might enter politics...
...Gogarty, "wittiest man in Dublin, has a sharp tongue and a thin skin. Two months ago the famed surgeon-poet-Senator-wit collected ?100 libel damages from poor Irish Poet Patrick" Kavanagh. Immortalized in Joyce's Ulysses (1922) as Malachi Mulligan, Gogarty declared that Joyce had perpetrated a gross libel. The Mulligan portrait, said its original, was a brutalized version showing only the bawdy side of his wit; Joyce had maliciously muted his subtler accomplishments, such as his poetry, his witty out-talking of Dublin's best talkers...