Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company with Cinemactors Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, she saw Okies at home: overalled migrant farmers, their wives and children in poor Sunday best, in squatters' camps by roadsides, private camps on big farms. U.S. Government camps and a Federal cooperative farm. "My, ain't they nice!" said a migrant wife at Visalia, admiring Mrs. Roosevelt's manicure hands (see cut). " A fine lady," said Mrs. W.N. Pace. "She's nice looking, too-just as homey...
...next month. Says he: "A fellow has to keep busy or he gets bored. I'm never bored." Three years ago, when his cronies of the G. A. R. hobbled bravely down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in their Memorial-Day parade, Veteran Jackson failed to march. "Poor old Bill!" sighed his aged brothers-in-arms. Later they discovered that Bill Jackson had been dodging in & out of the crowds all along the route, taking pictures of the parade...
...constant worries. Approximately half of them worried only now & then; the rest said they never worried at all. The three chief worries of both boys & girls were the same: 1) failing a test, 2) mother working too hard, 3) mother getting sick. Other big worries: having a poor report card, father working too hard, people telling lies about you, being late for school, being scolded, doing wrong, getting sick...
Since psychologists must always have a conclusion: "[It] would seem to indicate that our school system lays too much emphasis upon 'failing a test,' 'having a poor report card,' 'being late to school' and 'being left back in school.' We cannot easily reduce children's worries about family matters, but we might very well do so in regard to school matters that are not very significant for the child's future growth and development...
Records: Old times return. Artie Shaw has made a new record for Victor with his new 32 piece band. Announced as "something entirely new", this is a poor copy of the Andre Kostelanetz style of dance arranging which Kostelanetz has been doing for the last five years. It may be just coincidence that Shaw used to work in Kostelanetz's clarinet section. Only original note is the hot clarinet against a string background. But even this Shaw did three years ago with his first band (see "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" for an example. Brunswick.), so that once...