Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further figures to prove that students are not satisfied with anything below 90 proof, show that Rye whiskey, Gin, Rum and Brandy follow in that order on the preferred list. Running a poor second to Scotch, Rye has tallied a score of 35, while Gin and Rum find themselves in a deadlock for third with 19 votes apiece. Leading the list of favorite brands of Rye, "Shady Oak," and Hiram Walker's "Canadian Club" are fighting it out for top honors with "Guggenheim" and "G & W". "Felton's" and "Bacardi" always favorite brands of Rum have not lost their supremacy...
University--"Fashions of 1934". Bette Davis provides a good excuse, William Powell a poor one, for another Warner dance extravaganza. "Hips, Hips, Hooray." The usual Wheeler and Woolsey antics...
Granted that flying conditions were poor; granted that army fliers lack experience in blind and instrument piloting, radio beacon landing; granted that the government's aeroplanes were some years behind the civilian transport machines in efficient performances--that may be valid excuse for their poor performance in carrying the mails, but it would be small consolation had the emergency been one which could not be controlled by executive order or opposition legislation. The individual army pilots lack neither courage or ability, but the equipment, training, and morale of that service is far below the standards of practical preparedness...
There were live dogs, live chickens, live pheasants, live tap-dancers. Mrs. Roosevelt stopped at a booth labeled "Consider the Poor Fish" where tropical fish swam inside bookends, lamp bases and cases hung like pictures on walls...
...ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor, their crowded and filthy dwellings, the ignorance, disease and dirt that was complacently assumed to be their lot. Dickens pilloried child labor (David Copper field), venaliy-conducted charitable institutions (Oliver Twist), legal mummery (Bleak House). His account of the protracted suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce had a notable effect...