Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star Pilot, and with the help of her topflight trainer became racing's biggest pursewinner ($589,170) last year. Somehow, a horse named Knockdown, costing only $2,000, sneaked into her lush stables. Last week, in the richest race for three-year-olds ever run, the poor relation led all the way, and romped home the winner in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby...
Equity had its own stake in the matter : it was frank to say that the return of burlesque would mean jobs for comedians, strippers and chorus girls plus "some 2,000 additional people" (stagehands, musicians, etc.). But others had a stake too. Said Equity. "Burlesque was the poor man's musical comedy. He could take his whole family to it for what it cost to buy one seat at Broadway musicals...
...proudly claims Corwin as its own uncommon man, repeats many of his broadcasts, gives him a free hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...
...built on-campus dormitories, because he thought there was too much disparity between rich & poor in Smith's cliquish off-campus "gold coast," did much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...
With halting feet poor Dryden's verses