Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes lead all other classes in wanting to fight Hitler, the poor are keener than the rich...
...Secretary Lord Halifax to the House of Lords. As to the war's futility, it was Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for the Dominions, the young hopeful, who went to bat. His was the hardest job of all. Why fight? Why kill off millions for another Versailles, another poor peace, yet another war? Anthony Eden took to the radio and said to the world: "The Nazi System and all that it has implied (naked aggression . . . cynical dissimulation . . . flagrant mockery . . . lawlessness . . . bloodshed . . . ) must go." The Nazis purged, said he, civilization might again nourish-"for some forces are bigger than...
...From the newspaper Der Bund in Berne, Switzerland, came the suggestion that neutrals should clearly define borders by 30-square-foot white markers every kilometre, flooded by light at night. Poor old Geneva, the funeral parlor of international hopes, could not decide whether to clothe itself in black or not. After debate, it was decided to compromise: lights till midnight, blackout after...
Even faster than they get panicked, British get bored, and by last week they were heartily fed up with groping around in the dark waiting for gas and bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans...
...shocking." Said he: "It is appalling to discover that there are few, if any, observable differences, in other respects than earning power alone, between the graduates and non-graduates and between those who in college were known as 'good' students . . . and those who were known as 'poor' students. . . . They are culturally much alike: they listen to the same radio programs, read the same magazines, go to the same movies, feel much the same about their jobs and their families and their health, carry on the same and for the most part spectator types of recreations...