Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agree with your cinema critic that She is a very mediocre spectacle. But evidently the poor dear could not sit through the picture without an occasional...
...long and faithfully and well, and, personally, I insist that the Senate bring its business quickly to an end. . . ." More applause. "In my opinion it will be welcomed by the great majority of the people in the whole country. This share-the-wealth, soak-the-rich and save-the-poor legislation, some of which I am in favor of, can wait six months longer, because the rich will not get too rich in a few more months and the wealth can then be shared, and the poor are being taken care of now, and I am personally appealing...
...Today the salvation of the franc demands sacrifices from every Frenchman. The State debt has grown from 260 milliards [billions] to 340 milliards of francs [$22,555,000,000]. To balance our budget requires equality of sacrifice from rich & poor, high & low. My Government stands for such equality of sacrifice, for solid currency and for domestic peace...
...back at 180. Refused a permanent job, she appealed to the New York State Commissioner of Education, who last week asked Board of Examiners Chairman Henry Levy to state his grounds. Fat teachers, said Examiner Levy, cannot climb stairs, move fast enough in fire drills; they are a poor risk for the compulsory pension system; they are "esthetically undesirable." Said Rose Freistater's sturdy father David: "Rose is not fat. She is just big and strong. That fellow Levy said she wasn't pretty. What does he know about it? Why, Rose has always had a fellow...
Born in Arpinum in 106 B.C., Cicero was a "new man," an upstart and outsider, belonging to the mercantile class that stood between the nobility and the commons. Thin, long-necked, timid, wearying friends by overpraising himself, Cicero made a poor hero. Academic Dr. Richards considers his lifelong hesitancy a sign of devotion to the Roman Republic. But readers may feel, on the strength of Dr. Richards' account, that Cicero simply could not make up his mind where he stood in the issue of democracy v. dictatorship. He had a yes-and-no policy on the soldiers' bonus...