Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have you come, You poor little thing? With so jew feathers You really might...
...plot is hackneyed and almost traditional: Poor boy wants to see Mother living more comfortably, sinks into life of crime to achieve his end. There is a certain degree of force in Grant's portrayed of Ernle Mott if you region him a figure symbolic of all the underprivileged, an embattled young man of his century moved by vast influences he can understand only in terms of privation. Unfortunately, it is too much a matter of imagination. "None but the Lonely Heart" gives an overwhelming impression of confusion...
...Poor me! At Christmas brothers are at the front, sisters in factories, mother is a member of the searchlight crew, father is in the People's Army, grandfather is in home defense, Santa Claus is bombed out and Baby Jesus is evacuated...
...Costa Rica has Central America's highest standard of living, one of the highest in any tropical country. "In Costa Rica we don't have classes-there are rich and poor, but the rich are not so rich as in some countries, and the poor are not so poor." Coffee workers earn from 27? to 54? a day. Servants are paid from $1 to $5 a month. Government workers get along on $26 a month. Costa Ricans spend about half their income on food...
Playwright Rattigan (French without Tears, While the Sun Shines) has spun out a commonplace, lifeless comedy about a poor but charming widow who becomes the mistress of a Cabinet minister. Life is gay and she is happy until her priggish Left-Wing young son returns from Canada and is outraged to find his mother living in luxurious sin. He forces her back into virtuous drabness-but not for too long...