Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the dirty, coal-blacked miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford, Dan, the former bell-hop, sailor and local lothario, takes to strangulation and ends on the gallows. Both are Welsh; both are Emlyn Williams; both are, as Dan himself expresses it, a piece of chocolate "with a soft center...
...course, you didn't mean that the poor mother received transfusions of pure hemoglobin, which would have been toxic if not fatal. Mrs. Wenger probably received whole blood to build up her hemoglobin level...
...always sloshed triumphantly through the mud. He was elected lieutenant governor, then governor. When his second term ended, the state was all but bankrupt. But Mississippi sent him to the U.S. Senate, sent him back again in 1940. Bilbo always told the poor, ill-educated, farm-bound "peckerwoods" what they wanted to hear, the way they wanted to hear it. Few Americans since Huey Long had turned men's fear, prejudice, cupidity and hunger for drama so successfully to his own ends...
...painfully shy, introsoective, and so slow in learning to speak that his parents feared he was subnormal. At school he was a poor student. But he learned to improvise on the piano, and used to make up religious songs which he would hum in his own room where no one could hear...
...milk is pasteurized, sold on prescription at 35? an oz. (free to poor parents) for babies who are 1) premature, 2) postoperative, 3) victims of malnutrition, diarrhea or allergy to cow's milk. None can be bought by rich mothers who simply can't be bothered to nurse their normal offspring themselves...