Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to be a God-fearing country." Lady Godiva's father, marching beside the mare, knocked the old man to the pavement. The crowd pinned him down. As police dragged the oldster to safety he shrieked: "How dare they do that to a little girl of 13? Poor little innocent-making an exhibition of herself at that tender age! I think it's awful." Unabashed, Lady Godiva calmed her rearing mare, rode...
...they had ambitious plans for the upstairs panels. They thought of John Singer Sargent, whose gaudy Triumph of Religion in the Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone but a really "distinguished painter...
...Franklin Roosevelt's great personal popularity among Negroes, the poor and the underprivileged, Bruce Barton cried: "The fact remains that this mass feeling toward the President is the controlling political influence of our day. To ignore it is blindness, to inveigh against it is political insanity. The intelligent attitude is to admire it, covet it and set industriously and sincerely to work to deserve...
...told Harvard students How to Be Intelligent Though Educated (TIME, May 16), was forbidden by University of Colorado's President George Norlin to deliver a scheduled lecture on "Art and the Workers" at the University's summer school. Snapped Lecturer Rand: "I think it is, in poor taste for President Norlin to use me for publicity purposes for himself. He should hire his own press agent...
...terrifying descriptions of Hell. Nowadays, they make the world sound as bad as Hell once did. In Luckypenny, Bruce Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...