Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, and it was a likely story - forced him to return to Russia. A tall, slouching man with a pale face, Panyushkin covers his Communist inflexibility with a manner that, compared to Novikov's, is affable and friendly. Like most younger Russian diplomats, his English is poor and he frequently submits to interpretation. He is a member of the revision committee of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, a body of highly trusted party members headed by Stalin himself...
...write for the movies.") There was also a scene where a son refused to work in his mother's second-hand store and "squeeze pennies out of little people poorer than I am." In the U.S., explained Mrs. Rogers, "we don't necessarily squeeze pennies from poor people...
...Possibly, she became a little odd as people are apt to when they are poor and live too much alone," one of her friends confessed in a monograph for the show. "This was especially true during her last years in Rome, where she did . . . one very remarkable portrait of herself." Said one Providence critic after studying the portrait last week: "It is the face of a woman who, looking in a mirror, sees Death...
...comparison between the bad rich and the good poor is far too familiar and too pat. The characters she means to portray sympathetically emerge as sentimentally unreal. But her nightclubbing set is alive with sharp-nailed women and men whose roving eyes seek trouble and ensue...
Stalin, the only man suggested on the ballot, ran a poor-eight as Sex, Woman. Gromyko, Hearst, William Herman, administrative head of the dining hall, and VD received desultory support. Margaret O'Brien polled three votes...