Word: poorly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will have his work cut out for him. Despite bounties from the U.S., despite war installations, the islands are still what Herbert Hoover called them when he visited there in 1931: an "effective poor-house...
Said Critic Brebner: Canadians leave home because salaries are higher in the U.S., because "the canny, cautious conservatism which has so often characterized Canadians, rich and poor alike, [makes life in Canada] discouraging." Young people especially seemed to find that "the inertia of their entrenched elders had drained Canadian life of color, zest, adventure, and the stimulation which comes from free-ranging experimentation in ideas...
...Berlin's Russian zone, 100 prints and drawings of the poor, the sick, the starved and the dead went on view. Done by the late German Socialist Käthe Kollwitz (TIME, Dec. 3) and damned by the Nazis, they were mostly about Germany after World War I. But many had an obvious application to the present...
...nine of N.R.D.G.A.'s exhibits which OPA has been able to trace, seven were phony, said Bowles. Example: a shoddy $5.50 iron was a poor version of a shiny, solidly built product which the New York manufacturer had originally shown OPA to geb a favorable ceiling. OPA now has him in court...
Shaw having fun means, sooner or later, Shaw having fun at society's expense. Pygmalion rags aristocratic pretensions by showing how easily aristocrats can be manufactured; it whacks away at middle-class morality, which would forbid all pleasure to the poor. But the satire in Pygmalion has worn less well than the comedy. Much the funniest scene in the play is Eliza's first appearance in society: with the purest, pear-shaped tones and impeccable enunciation, she recounts the horrendous yarn of how her gin-swilling aunt was "done...