Word: poorly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prosaic Thriller. The prosaic facts about El Gitano were as exciting as the corrido. He was the leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...
...This reborn church . . . would pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. A life, not a creed, would be the test. ... It would be the church of all the people . . . the church of the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant, the high and the low-a true democracy. ... I see all denominational emphasis set aside. I see cooperation, not competition. ... I see the church through its members molding the thought of the world and leading in all great movements. I see it literally establishing the Kingdom...
...World War II the corporation voluntarily froze diamond prices at prewar levels, although industrial users grumbled that upgrading of poor stones had actually upped prices. The Trading Company paid as little attention to this as to any complaints from buyers who do not like its rules. Customers pay in advance, take title to the stones in London. Industrial users often buy stones unseen, have them mailed to them from London...
...TACA may gather the operating rights to knit its South American system together. A new TACA affiliate is getting under way in Paraguay, and one is on paper in Argentina, awaiting more favorable diplomatic weather. Unless TACA loses its market-South & Central America's need for a poor man's airline-more are likely to follow...
...family play host for a day to a soldier, previously unknown to them, and to let nature take its course. Such a story might be told in as many different ways as there are families, and soldiers. There is certainly no reason why the family should not be a poor one, so that the Sunday Dinner involves sacrifice and anticipation; or why there should not be a marriageable girl (Anne Baxter) on hand; or why she and the soldier (John Hodiak) should not fall in love, even within a day, and make a happy ending of it. But there...