Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain, a full participant in every step of the process, no longer seemed a poor third in the Big Three. Even Canada approached the Big Five in stature now that it held the secret, and three of the Big Five...
Margie Hart, red-haired stripteaser, was too hot for the U.S.O. to handle. "The Poor Man's Garbo," who had once been forbidden by New York University to lecture on farming, told Stars & Stripes that the U.S.O. not only wanted none of her wiggle-waggling for troops overseas, but declined her strictly subdued offer to wrap herself up in a Mother Hubbard and give poetry recitations...
...known summons was the one which called Father Sill to found Kent School in an old farmhouse on Connecti cut's Housatonic River in 1906. There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford. Some of them used to get to row on one of "Pater" Sill's Henley champion ship crews...
...Liberty has tried hard to live down an unhappy past. Its masthead each week carries a significant sentence: "No longer connected with Macfadden Publications or the Chicago Tribune." The magazine's founding fathers, Colonel Robert R. McCormick and Captain Joseph Patterson, launched it 21 years ago as a poor man's Saturday Evening Post, won readers but never did influence advertisers. Then Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden took over, cheap-jacked its contents, built up 2,700,000 circulation, but still lost money...
...Alger wrote about poor boys who became millionaires. (His heroes rose from poverty to riches but by contemporary standards they did not rise to the top-their fortunes usually averaged...