Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Hollywood be cut. They had complained that Hollywood made $80,000,000 a year in Britain, while British pictures, even good ones, could hardly get a showing in the U.S.. Example: the superb movie Night Train grossed only $650,000 in the U.S., less than many a poor Hollywood B picture...
...expended little thought or care on their former leaders. Once, in this very town, they had cheered them year after year with apoplectic fervor. Now, one of them said: "The trials? Na ja. Of course criminals should be brought to trial. It isn't the fault of us poor people." Said another: "You accuse them of making war. Are you not preparing new wars...
...verbally it is a desperately worldly triangle story. Trying for sophistication, it is too proud for wisecracks but too poor...
Most of the worshippers at St. Francis of Assisi are transients: out-of-towners, hotel guests, office workers, commuters and clients of St. Anthony, whose National Shrine is the lower church. Though the two churches hold only 1,355 at a time, it is a poor Sunday that 5,000 don't hear Mass there- there are 13 Masses every Sunday. Its staff of 60 priests hears about half a million confessions a year. On holy days (26 Masses), attendance usually climbs to something over 20,000. Sometimes seven and eight Masses are said at the same time...
...canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there. He backed up his opinion with an old Flemish proverb: " 'It's a poor man who is not able to eat at his own wedding.' That seems to be the case here...