Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barked at them from the starter's platform, worked into line at the head of the stretch, their sleeves flashing, their caps bobbing, ten millionaires watched their maneuvers with an intimate and peculiar interest. They were the owners- all rich then, but nine of them due to be poorer in a few minutes. There were W. R. Coe, Standard oil mines; Colonel Bradley, who once owned the Del Prado hotel in Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly conducted on Madison Street, near Clark; J. E. Griffith...
...doctor who has gone out and worked among the poorer classes could ever vote for the modification of a law against intoxicating liquors," said Dr. Alfred Worcester yesterday in an interview to the CRIMSON on the question of National Prohibition...
...they forget to mention former marriage conditions in the Caucasus. To buy a wife was then a costly proposition, for besides paying a heavy sum to the bride's father, the groom was obliged to entertain the whole village lavishly on the day of his betrothal. To the poorer tribesman, therefore, stealing or kidnapping brides became almost obligatory, a practice which often led to blood feuds between the families of bride and kidnapper. So much for the evils of laissez faire; government regulation has now put an end to all of them...
Good books go through their grand editions only to end their existence on poor stalls in poorer covers. Good plays suffer a somewhat similar fate. They too have the grand vellum of Broadway about them for a time until, eclipsed by newer rivals, they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell...
Such is the case with Aristide Maillol--a collection of whose works on paper and in plastic stuff is being shown at the Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibits are few in number, and a great part of them are probably bettered in quality by the work of much poorer artists. But even these are interesting, as a background to his better work, and this is really good...