Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Adamses are to Boston, the Biddles to Philadelphia, the Pinckneys to Charleston, the Nevins are to Sewickley, Pa., smart suburb of Pittsburgh. So numerous are Nevins, rich ones and poor ones, that Sewickley churchgoers, according to local legend, sometimes start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...
Between 1931 and 1934 New York's Commissioner of Immigration had been Edward Corsi, a distinguished member of Manhattan's Italian colony. In February 1934, Commissioner Corsi resigned to take over the even more difficult task of administering New York City's poor relief. Appointed as his successor was white-haired, bushy-browed Rudolph Reimer, a serious hard-working Democrat who had retired from the coal business...
...sooner was Muralist Hideo Noda's cartoon submitted to him than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California...
...Carrel hints that he would make a good member of such a High Council. Writing of himself in the third person he says: "He has observed practically every form of human activity. He is acquainted with the poor and the rich, the sound and the diseased, the learned and the ignorant, the weak-minded, the insane, the shrewd, the criminal, etc. . . . farmers, proletarians, clerks, shopkeepers, financiers, manufacturers, politicians, statesmen, soldiers, professors, schoolteachers, clergymen, peasants, bourgeois, and aristocrats. The circumstances of his life have led him across the path of philosophers, artists, poets, and scientists. And also of geniuses, heroes...
...hissed in the theatre, snubbed on all sides, while her scandal nearly overthrew the government. She developed into a monstrous, muscular, scowling and ugly woman, adopted a daughter, lived ten years after the Prince's death, became extremely pious, doing great good works for the poor...