Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hate to be an old bastard, but I want you to line up Lady Halpert and your Art section editor long enough for me to whisper something in their shell-pink ears. The reproduction of Knight's Farmhouse Gossip is a very poor copy of an original painting called A Secret. . . . The original was photographic in style and a hell of a lot better than the foul copy "originated" by Mr. Knight...
...have a book called Art and Artists of All Nations. In this is a copy of A Secret by O. Goldman, a German artist. I am sure Knight did a very poor copy...
...single political word. He was simply an interested farmer (486 acres near Pawling, N.Y.). "Farming," said Tom Dewey, "has been the principal interest in my life for the last ten years." Trim and tanned (he had been getting in his hay, he said), he talked easily about the poor state of the corn crop, the merits of artificial insemination of cattle, and got his picture taken with a prize...
...Yorkers knew his history. He was born in a tenement on Manhattan's lower East Side, the son of poor immigrants from Italy. But his father, a musician named Achille LaGuardia, joined the U.S. Army and became bandmaster of the 11th Infantry Regiment; Fiorello's boyhood was spent in Arizona Army posts. It was a good boyhood. He learned music (all his life he worshiped opera, and as mayor he took delight in leading bands and orchestras). He also rode half-wild range horses and learned early that brashness could be a substitute for size...
...tape and planned agriculture. For two years, the Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, a Yorkshireman and Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries in the Labor Cabinet, has been struggling to enforce the plans for Britain's fields. For two years, British farmers have resisted him. Last summer Farmer Dennis had a poor wheat crop which he plowed under. The local County Agricultural Committee then ordered him to sow the same 20-acre field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich the soil. County Agricultural Committees, consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture...