Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the blast of warm air and rain which swept over New England on Wednesday has left in its wake skiing conditions which are predominantly poor, several centers, including Cannon Mt., Pinkham Notch, Waterville Valley, and Stowe, Vt., report fair conditions with a dusting of new snow over a breakable crust...
Kerins merely laughs this off as an indication of the poor training afforded by his home town high school, of which he is a product...
Picasso's enemies attribute to him a peasant tightness with his money. There are few stories of his personal generosity, though it is a fact that any poor but promising poet can get a Picasso etching for his book by asking for it. He has certainly contributed a great deal to the Loyalist side in the Spanish civil war: the Guernica mural free, all proceeds from exhibiting it (to date about $5,000), at least two fully equipped fighting planes, and during the last few weeks a cash gift of 300,000 francs...
...fame & future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie & good fellowship that he gets out of bed & perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that we may share with him the fun of one of poor Hood's queer little conceits...
...National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and Louis Armstrong playing "Jeepers Creepers"; a murder mystery, and Maxine Sullivan singing "Mutiny in the Nursery;"--that is the dish the University is serving up today and tomorrow. In its serious moments, except for a rendition of Wagner's "Tannhauser," it is very poor; in its humorous ones, excellent. "There's That Woman Again," with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce, pretends to be a detective story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side...