Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Savo had articles in both Vogue and Hobo News. Wrote the Italian castle-owning comedian in Vogue: "It is when I look at the map of Italy that I am sad, thinking of the poor mythical people living there in the little town within the walls of my castle." For the Hobo News the classically baggy and disheveled Savo explained: "My suit['s] . . . biggest advantage is that I can turn it into a night kimono after...
...Democratic Senator from Louisiana, denounced a contemplated new tax on fur coats, demanded exemption for styles costing under $150. "I'm not talking about the $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 fur garments," he said, "but I'm talking about those cheap little $200 fur coats these poor little working girls have to have as an absolutely necessary item to keep themselves warm as they go to war plants to make munitions...
...upon the recommendations of superior officers. It stands to human nature that partiality is shown to one's friends. . . . There have been instances of high officers decorating one of their own [number] without compensating awards to men in the ranks. These are rarely undeserved. But they are poor psychology for the enlisted man, to say the least...
...that the War Department had proclaimed its "vested interest" in news of its doings, would the Army proceed to suppress such items as the Patton case, the poor start of the Attu campaign, and try to make the U.S. public think that everything is hunky-dory...
Adams, House, their closest competitor, got off to a poor start in the second round yesterday, dropping a heartbreaker to Lowell to the tune...