Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual merits--and we can find it wanting. Perhaps this feeling comes because Danny Kaye cannot seem to exude any of the real Mitty atmosphere; perhaps Kaye's species of facial-contortions-and-mouth-noises humor has begun to be rather tedious; perhaps slapstick is still, as always, a poor substitute for wit. Or perhaps the five dream-episodes, (three from the original story), funny as they may be, just don't completely redeem a routine "comedy-mystery"--routine even to the extent of including Boris Karloff...
Wading In. But last week ambitious Walter Reuther, no easy man to contain, needed an endorsement neither from Murray nor any other outsider. In the 19 months between conventions, he had worked tirelessly to sap the strength of his left-wing opposition. At first, the results were poor. But as anti-Communist feeling rose generally throughout the U.S., it rose among U.A.W. members, too, and Reuther made the most...
...grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people adored and elected him. He built $200 million worth of highways, provided free textbooks for schoolchildren, lavished funds on Louisiana State University, went on to the U.S. Senate. He did the people some good...
...things with a demagogic Huey Longish ring: more four-lane highways, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who was shouting in a gravel voice that nobody never proved nothin' crooked about Earl K. Long, the White Knight of the poor folks. He will probably finish close enough to Jones in the primaries to require a runoff...
What makes an All-America player? To be a sure shot, he must play on a winning team which has a major schedule. If he is a standout player, that helps too. But great talent on a poor team will get a man almost nowhere. And the pickers could not be blamed for that: the fairest way of measuring an All-America was to judge his feats by the quality of his opposition...