Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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September. In Chicago, Julius Goss pointed out to police that it was illogical to accuse him of setting a church afire, since for 48 years he had made his living robbing poor boxes...
...last weekend's competition at Franconia, N.H., semi-official opening of the New England season, the weather cooperated none too well. A near blizzard set in. At other spots, with only a. sprinkling of new snow on a frozen crust, conditions were poor to fair, but ski-hungry folk flocked to the hills anyhow...
...firm, bril liant flesh of mindless womanhood." "This Was Suicide." He had committed, she saw, "the classic type of treachery which every educated person knows at once for the base and final act it is, for Sir Roger Casement committed it in the last war." Like a "poor young idiot" he joined the Nazis' fight against his homeland not when Germany was winning but when she was losing...
...with which he wowed G.I.s in the Pacific. It is frankly a tough guy's Hamlet, with the Prince himself anything but a softie. It moves swiftly and mounts steadily with the crackle of great melodrama. It cuts boldly across whole scenes-there are no gravediggers, no "Alas, poor Yorick," no obsequies for Ophelia. It cuts boldly across time: Actor Evans has laid it in a 19th-Century Denmark of waltzes and tight trousers...
...Stork Club (Paramount) would be just another slightly silly cinemusical if it were not for a super-amiable performance by Barry Fitzgerald and a super-dynamic one by Betty Hutton. Fitzgerald has a chance to play rich and poor, stingy and generous, angry, whimsical, sour and wistful. Betty Hutton is permitted to make funny faces, wear a bathing suit and imitate the voice of Walter Winchell. Her songs are undistinguished but her uninhibited way of putting them over is an eclectic mixture of Harlem and Bali, with a shout from the heyday of Ethel Merman and a gesture from...