Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Golden, 69-year-old Broadway producer (Three's A Family), who wrote the lyric of Poor Butterfly, was the author of a new one: the official theme song of New York City's Department of Sanitation. Sample...
This was a poor imitation of the sensational Original Dixieland Jazz Band, then making the word jazz famous. But after two years Lewis left Rector's with a reputation for the musical clowning that has remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...
...When little Serapia was only three years old, she caught the disease called smallpox. . . . The poor child died in her mother's arms." Soon the grieving Mrs. Gomez was visited by a little bird that turned out to be Serapia. Said Serapia "I went to Heaven. Saint Peter told me that God was very worried because nobody should die of smallpox. He asked me if we had a doctor in the village. I told him that we had none. But not very far away in Tingo Maria there was a new hospital and they had a doctor...
...Because of the tendency of doctors to gravitate to states whose citizens can pay well for medical care, the doctor shortage will increase fastest in the "medically poor" states (e.g., Alabama, with 2% of U.S. population, gets only one-third of 1% of available medical graduates...
...Within individual states, medically poor rural areas lose doctors faster than the cities...