Word: poring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to show irregularities. Later, the investigation will turn to the Prohibition enforcement. Whether there will be any developments before election time is indeed dubious. ¶ The Special House Committee, investigating charges that there was duplication of bonds in turning out the War loans, assembled and began to pore over books. ¶ Far from the theatre of political war, the bantering of accusation and counteraccusation, quietly in a Chicago Federal Court, Judge George A. Carpenter set the date for the trial of Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau. Forbes was indicted with a Chicago contractor, John...
...Mistinguett, French, sprouting ostrich plumes at every pore, and singing statuesquely a song Innocent Eyes, in which her optics come prettily into play...
...Prior to about 1860 sports were not generally indulged in for the greater glory of Alma Mater. When the value of organized athletics was recognized, however, and the advantages of the element of extramural competition became apparent, the grotesque shapes to which the theory of mons sana in il pore sano was twisted by short sighted enthusiasts seemed to indicate on unreasoning fanaticism. Instead of being directed with the idea of improving the health standard of the average sum of students, sports were seized upon as a means of institutional advertising, and were regarded in themselves as the ultimate goal...
...America the "unemployed" are equally well off. Only the other day the newspapers printed the story of a tramp who rang the back doorbell of a Connecticut house and to the lady there of said, "Can you let me have a little food, mam, for a pore, hongry man, or just a few pennies, or some of your husband's old clothes." She refused his request and thereupon he went out to the street, stepped into his powerful car, and rode off in high dudgeon...
...Miss Twose who "was a very bleached and shapeless little person, who, somehow, reminded one of an inferior dried fig;" "Benny Dodd's Adventure", with its O. Henry climax; "It!", full of pathetic, sodden shoes; and "Spring Scandal", peppered with potentially horrifying gossip such as, "That be a pore creature, the Queen o'Spain, Oi rackon. No flesh. No substance. No curl"--are pretty near perfection in their...