Word: dolefully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With its prestige secure, the Marshall Plan forged ahead. In France and most other OEEC countries (notably excepting Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful...
Samuel Adams II, '50, Walter E. Albrecht, Jr. '49, Franklin G. Balch III '49, William J. Barber '46, Robert E. Bayliss '50, Henry S. Bennett '49, Robert Carswell '49, Daniel A. Cronin, Jr. '50, Gerard Dawson '48, William P. Dole '49, Paul J. Douglass '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Jerome P. Gavin '50, Richard D. Hatton '49, John C. Hawkins '49, Arthur C. Hillwick '50, Frederick L. Holborn '49, Donald B. Louria '49, John G. Lowe, Jr. '49, John W. Mathews '50, Richard F. McGrath '49, Stedman B. Noble '49, Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49, George Putnam, Jr. '49, Norman...
...Save ERP" Committee's points "reconstruction not relief"--is still in decided danger from such influential Congressmen as Senators Taft and Ball, who want to slice the program drastically, for reasons of "economy." If this ill-advised scissoring succeeds in turning the recovery program into a parsimonious dole for Europe's needy, then Mr. George Weller, whose letter appears elsewhere on this page, may be right. Such a "European Relief Plan" would actively encourage Communists, whose greatest fear is a courageous program of reconstruction...
Earnest A. Hooton, self-winding Harvard anthropologist, unwound a wallop at love on the dole. "Stupid, shiftless, and improvident human beings breed the most rapidly," he informed a California lecture audience, "because they feel little responsibility to their offspring and recognize no obligation to society. . . . If we must feed and foster the incompetent, we should at the same time prevent their reproducing their kind...
...Manhattan-a town whose citizens assay high for canniness-a leisure-loving group of bums made a delightful discovery last year. They discovered that life and even love on the dole was not such a bad racket. A sharp operator could live in a good hotel room (even when travelers were being turned away) and get generous allowances for restaurant meals simply by talking fast and avoiding employment. And he could sometimes live the good, gay life for months without hindrance by welfare authorities...