Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Pegler got another kind of compliment from Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt. In her question & answer column in the Ladies' Home Journal, she was asked why her "big, strong American sons" didn't horsewhip Westbrook Pegler. Mrs. Roosevelt's reply: "Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler? They would probably go to jail for attacking someone who was physically older and perhaps unable to defend himself. After all, he is such a little gnat on the horizon...
Miracle of the Wheat. What brought it down chiefly was the greatest crop in U.S. history. In Oklahoma and Kansas, the farmers marveled at the "miracle" wheat crop. The miracle was repeated almost everywhere. The corn crop, which had been poor in 1947, was the biggest ever. All told, the U.S. harvest was 11% bigger than ever before...
Author O'Faoláin is aware of their limitation. Speaking of Irish writers generally, he once remarked that they had come from poor households, and there was a side of life they did not know. Their romance, he said, could only "be made out of what we have-rags and bones, moonlight, limed cabins, struggle, the passion of our people, a bitter history, great folly, a sense of eternity in all things, a courage 'never to submit or yield...
...spite of fever and "vapourish qualms" he stuck it out, was elected to the legislature and married the daughter of Daniel Dulany the elder, one of Maryland's richest men. Wrote one member of Hamilton's ribald Tuesday Club to a fellow member then in England: "Poor Hamilton is gone-not dead, but married...
...memorial plaque, and additional burying space at the Cambridge Cemetery. This was the "politico" who took enough time to drive hundreds of Kerry Corner youngsters out into the country on Sunday mornings. This was the bespectacled little man who on Saturday morning, personality delivered baskets of food to poor and needy families. This was Councilman Michael A. Sullivan the vote getter...