Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stead they erected a permanent organization, whose full official title is "Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)." Man of Power. John Llewellyn Lewis does not expect to be seen clearly in his time, but he does expect to be measured in history. Seemingly undismayed by C.I.O.'s poor showing in last fortnight's elections, Mr. Lewis last week measured himself as a man of power. Said he: "My strength is only the strength of the multitude when the multitude gives me a grant of authority to represent it, but when they send their grant of authority, then my strength...
...English Walter Winchell, gets $25,000 a year for turning out a half page of heavy chitchat for the Sunday Express and Daily Express. Sample: "I have had to give up reading bridge articles, because I notice that Y and Z always get the good hands, whereas poor old A and B usually only save a slam by preternatural cunning. I know so well what A and B feel." The two Beaverbrook sons are in the group-Max Jr., general manager of the Sunday Express, and Peter, who spends most of his time automobile racing...
Reports coming in from all states indicate that this will be a successful winter season, with skiers taxing the facilities of hotels, ski-schools, and railroads. Last year's poor snow conditions apparently only whetted the appetite of the average enthusiast...
...greatest flaw in "American Landscape" is that its main character is something of a man of straw; the farm is unproductive because Captain Dale is a poor farmer; the factory is a failure because in lean years its owner operated out of sentiment rather than on intelligent business principles. In this act there is too much reiteration of what has gone before--too many characters state that their fathers lived and died in Dalesford, that their brothers perished in the war to end war, and too many handsful of warm loam are tossed to the Autumn wind...
Hard to Get (Warner Bros.), like The Cowboy and the Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges...