Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers were proud to be called Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). He liked strong wine, singing and gold plate. His serious faults were his confidence that he was a greater general than Napoleon and his poor judgment of men. Wu at one time had all North China in his pocket. His ally, the "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, betrayed and ruined him. Time and again Wu, sickened by China's chaos, has retired to a mountain monastery in Tibet to polish up his calligraphy...
...white-haired, 74-year-oldster who has written many a song, anthem and organ piece, played more than 50,000 numbers. Genteel Organist Woodman says: "When I first went into music it was regarded as equivalent to retiring from social life. Many well-known musicians of bad habits and poor principles had so harmed the profession that the public held it in little regard...
Small, dark-eyed, prolific Author Baldwin took quick advantage of her first success, and at great speed, using the amateur's hunt and peck system, in the next five years typed out 16 serials as well as many a short story. Her grammar was shaky, her punctuation poor, but rates for her work increased steadily, until she now receives more than $50,000 for each of her magazine serials, is approaching Kathleen Norris' top mark of approximately $75,000 a serial for three serials a year. Unlike Romancer Norris, who can carry on a conversation and manage...
...flight among small-town papers. For their first step, Messrs. Cowles & Merwin sought a community with a high rating of literacy and education, a high percentage of native-born U. S. citizens, preferably of northern European stock, an even distribution of purchasing power with few rich, few poor. The paper they wanted was to be an evening sheet with strong reader loyalty and strong emphasis on home circulation. The specifications led them to Minneapolis and the Star...
Just why a gang should pick the youngest of a poor widow's eight children as a likely extortion victim, Lois Thompson could not explain. Neither could anyone else. Daniel Shaw politely denied the whole story, said he hardly knew the girl. But as defense attorneys pointed out, he had admittedly sojourned in San Francisco "which is the headquarters of the white slave business" and in Illinois "where John Dillinger and his gang had their hideouts." Anyway, concluded one attorney, he was probably a Japanese...