2 QUOTES WITH «DIRT-POOR»
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dirt-poor.
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIRT-POOR»
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dirt-poor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dirt-poor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Growing Up Rich, Though
Dirt Poor
Author Bruce Vaughn remembers the good things life had to offer growing up in a small community in northwest Arkansas in the Depression.
2
Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
19.0 No dirt. Poor for heavy cream. 14779 Shaw & Mitton, Caribou 23.0 No dirt.
Poor for heavy cream. 22.5 No dirt. Poor for heavy cream. 16070 Clarke's Market,
Gardiner 45.0 No dirt. 16074 A. W. Cunningham & Co., Gardiner. . . . 38.0 No dirt.
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 1916
3
Red
Dirt: Growing Up Okie
I don't remember identifying with those terms that were used to refer to people
like us; on the contrary. White Trash: I believe the first time I heard that term was
when I saw Gone with the Wind, referring to some pretty creepy people, dirt poor,
...
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2006
After awhile, like so many married couples, they stopped trying. Despite their
heroic efforts to make a way for themselves, Willie and Annie Mae Fouther were
dirt poor. Dirt poor is worse than plain poor, although it is better than
homelessness.
Terri Austin Chiles, 2006
5
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
I remember when I started out in movies, in the forties, one of the Hollywood
papers said we had been dirt poor. It was a story some MGM press agent must
have put out to make my life sound more interesting than it was. That pissed me.
Ava Gardner, Peter Evans, 2013
6
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
I remember when I started out in movies, in the forties, one of the Hollywood
papers said we had been dirt poor. It was a story some MGM press agent must
have put out to make my life sound more interesting than it was. That pissed me.
Peter Evans, Ava Gardner, 2014
7
101 Things You Say All the Time
They're really dirt poor.” Three possible origins: (Choose one.) 1.) 2.) 3.) During
the great American Depression of the 1930s, many people were forced to live in
deplorable conditions. Some were visibly dirty and unclean, and the phrase dirt ...
Tuesday, July 26 Albany 74.. Rolling and hilly, dirt and gravel, fair, Wednesday,
July 27,.Utlca 100 . Long grades, dirt and clay, poor. Thursday, July 28. .. .
Syracuse 49 ..Rolling, gravel and dirt, poor. Friday. July 29 Rochester 82 "
Saturday, July ...
9
The Consumption of Inequality: Weapons of Mass Distraction
The Dirt Poor Culturally speaking, the very concept of dirt is a negative one.
Among other things, dirt refers to “earth” or “soil,” “any unclean substance, such
as mud, dust, excrement, etc; filth” and “a person or thing regarded as worthless.
Karen Bettez Halnon, 2013
Rolling, gravel and dirt, poor. gg CENTRAL NEW YORK DIVISION—NEW YORK
TO BUFFALO. :32 Tuesday, July 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Klngston, N, Y . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 94..Holling maeadam, good. Wednesday, July 27.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIRT-POOR»
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dirt-poor is used in the context of the following news items.
South Carolina House opens debate over Confederate flag - FOX 26 …
Mike Pitts, who remembered playing with a Confederate ancestor's cavalry sword while growing up, said for him the flag is a reminder of how dirt-poor Southern ... «MyFox Houston, Jul 15»
South Carolina House opens debate over bill to remove …
... Confederate ancestor's cavalry sword while growing up, said for him the flag is a reminder of how dirt-poor Southern farmers fought Yankees ... «Ottawa Sun, Jul 15»
Gary was a fraudster. Now he's a barrister with a TV show
Gary's attendance at the miners' do was, quite literally a trip down memory lane, since it was in this town that he was born to a dirt-poor ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
South Carolina House opens debate over Confederate flag - FOX13 …
Mike Pitts, who remembered playing with a Confederate ancestor's cavalry sword while growing up, said for him the flag is a reminder of how dirt-poor Southern ... «MyFox Memphis, Jul 15»
Marcus Eyre, a story-teller with plenty to tell
On one occasion he was flown to Poland, driven for several hours past dirt-poor farms and villages to the film location only to find that, though ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
'Love story' for mother helps one of Queensland's Stolen … - ABC
"We were a normal, frolicking, probably dirt-poor family, but what we lacked in material possessions we made up for in togetherness," she said. «ABC Online, Jul 15»
'Paulina': testing the limits of conviction
... a young lawyer who abandons her job and a Ph.D. to devote herself to grass-roots political activism on the dirt-poor rural fringes of Argentina. «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
Thousands of Hondurans protest President Juan Orlando …
The opposition charges more than $300 million was skimmed from dirt-poor Honduras's public health system. On Friday a judge released from ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
Armine Sahakyan: Armenian leaders need to launch economic …
... out of a banana-republic novel, where a handful of corrupt, ruthless government officials and business people lord it over dirt-poor peasants. «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
Assignment America: Sandpoint, Idaho
... a few generations removed from the 1850s handcart company that landed her Mormon grandfather in Salt Lake City as a dirt-poor teenager. «New York Times, Jul 15»
