Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall in the ground floor room formerly used as a smoking room. The Hygiene Department has had for some years a part-time doctor who several afternoons a week occupied a small cubbyhole devoid even of a washbasin, situated behind the entrance to the reading room. Facilities were so poor, however, and the doctor in attendance was there so short a time that only 57 per cent of the men registered as Law students made use of the opportunity to consult him during the year...
...heroine, Harlow relinquishes the role of the scheming vamp for that of a poor bewildered young thing with a heart of gold, victimized by the cruel force of circumstance. But fate at last turns, kills off her extra husband, gives her a part in saving his honor so that all ends for the best...
...Those poor, unfortunate inanities of Harvard 1911 have my profound sympathy. They, with their fellow Yale and Princeton men, represent the shattered remnants of the Puritanism that Santayana has so aptly described. The really sad thing is that they are too damn stupid to work the system out to its logical end. . . . They prefer to stay shut up in their own self complacence, completely oblivious of the changing world about them...
...livers and if they drink too much they get very sick." On puerile obscenity they thrive: "The simplest reference to the bathroom and the elimination processes of the digestive tract will plunge them into uncontrollable hysterics. ' In bed Latin males, according to Esquire's female researcher, are poor company: "They spend far more time in words than in action." They are "all worn out at 23," but their "lack of masculine energy" does not prevent them from boasting of their prowess. "My advice to the American male is: Go South, young man, Go South...
Though it controls most of the means of getting the public's eye and ear in the U. S., the Right always has a tough time presenting its case. Convinced that conservatives have either a poor case or no case at all. writers, artists and other people engaged in handling ideas tend to gravitate to the Left. Result is that the Left is usually vociferous, the Right inarticulate. And while the better business orators have turned from reviling the New Deal to extolling what is loosely called "the American Way." industry as a whole has had to fall back...