Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solely to entertain, it is also not to depress, embarrass, or mystify, as so many of the extremely outre productions of local theater groups have done. The Veterans Theater Workshop last week went through the motions of a play that was not only nebulous and long, but literally a poor piece of writing. The Harvard Dramatic Club, running in a flying wedge behind a superbly ingenious press-agent, managed to fill the house for a production whose only scintillating features were its novelty and its fig-leaf...
...Although they don't have as much money as many that I have helped in New York," she continued, "they have much more fun. Cambridge is the best place I know of to be poor...
Bright & early on Thanksgiving morn, as usual, the poor man's hunting season got its start in North Carolina. Short-legged, flop-eared beagles sniffed into brush-piles and thickets, set up a howl when they flushed a rabbit, worked it back before the hunters' guns. Some wistful old rabbit hunters were willing to settle just for the music of the hounds' high-pitched cry; others set their mouths for rabbit stew. The guns blazed away...
Although he experienced poor luck on his shots in the first five minutes, Rockwell, all scholastic forward from Indiana, soon found the range and thirteen of his shots were good for two points apiece. He added three foul shots for a total of 29. Two other players, forward Frank Lionette and guard Dick covey, also hit double figures, scoring 15 and 11 respectively...
...father of the former Secretary of the Treasury; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. After making a fortune in real estate, he turned to politics, looked back upon his years of service as part payment to the "country in which it is possible for the son of a poor immigrant to become an ambassador, his grandson a Cabinet officer and his great-granddaughter introduced to society in the White House...