Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork is the poor man's implement; you can fight with it or work with it." When he was ordered never again to publish a political paper in Missouri he moved The Pitchfork to Dallas. Its first office was over a saloon, so that the editor never had to go far for his news...
...Poor nutrition-not only insufficient quantities of food but insufficient vitamins and minerals...
...heart as clean as a baby's," was the fourth deputy assistant editor in a publishing firm. He told her his name was Mole, agreed to come to her house to live. Thus begins April Was When It Began, a complicated romance in which Dik-Dik tends a poor author's baby, breaks up Mole's engagement to a rich Irish girl, ages two years in time, ten years in feminine finesse. John Barry Benefield's new novel is cut to the same master pattern as his previous successes (The Chicken-Wagon Family, about...
Last week another air-minded prankster, Air Insuranceman Jerome ("Jerry") Lederer, launched what may become 'the Quiet Birdmerrs feminine counterpart, dubbed it "League for the Wives of Men in Aviation, Poor Things," issued a manifesto. Excerpts...
...Chicago, Rudolph Spielvogel, whose wife, Erika, wanted a divorce, told the court: "When my wife would provoke me, I would hit and kick myself. Then I would know how much it would have hurt her. . . ." Countered Wife Erika, his aim was sometimes poor: "He swung a pot of hot coffee and struck me with it." She got the divorce...