Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this old ivy puzzle is the University of Pennsylvania. Penn dates its founding from 1740 and the erection of a building which eleven years later opened '"for the instruction of poor Children gratis in Reading, Writing and Arithmetick." The Academy and Charitable School, as it was originally titled, was actually chartered as a college...
...Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there are other considerations." In the American Club, U.S. businessmen snickered knowingly over the old unprintable gags, as they followed Eva in the daily papers. And befurred society women stopped time & again to tell each other: "And my dear, it seems unbelievable, but did you hear what...
...allowed to go to Argentina. Eva got out to help, promised that the woman's petition would be granted. Next day, as she had done in Spain, she visited public nurseries, stuck lire into grimy, outstretched hands, talked steadily about her love for children and the poor...
Father Wilson tosses out a few hints on how penitents can make themselves less tedious to priests:* 1) don't adorn the tale ("Not a few people think that they will be wasting the priest's time, as well as disappointing the poor man, if they are unable to tell him something that will make him sit up and whistle. Supreme optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...