Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state put paved highways through the Ramapos. Soon the woods were full of artists, Boy Scouts, welfare workers, summer cottages. A mountain man couldn't sing a ballad to himself, like "If life was a thing that money could buy, The rich would live and the poor would die," without somebody pouncing on it as something wonderful that was 500 years old and came straight from England...
...which Gil had no objection. With them, he and Maggie got along fine until the winter of 1946. Then they fell sick, almost froze to death, and were taken by a rescue party to a hospital at Suffern. When they got well, they were sent to the Rockland County poor farm...
...poor are sallow as a female...
Gertrude Stein's opera digressed wackily through a wedding and the "mystery of wealth and poverty" sung by Susan B. and Jo the Loiterer ("I used to think I was poor, now I think I am rich and I am rich, quite rich, not very rich quite rich . . ."), but it also had a Stein-like message. Sang Susan...
Harassed by poor subordinates and the absence of his wife, Washington paced the rooms of the house, and gazed abstractedly from the windows at the view of the Charles, that reminded him pleasantly of his home by the Potomac. Longfellow, probably standing demurely at the same spot, conceived the lines...