Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baffling feature of the case is that no one in the Bursar's Office had ever heard of the burglary until its perpetrator confessed. In fact, the $100,000 had not even been missed. This looks like poor memory on the purloiner's part, or pretty sloppy bookkeeping...
This it did not get at Harvard. The Purchase Card Committee gave the plan utterly inadequate publicity, acting on the naive assumption that its job was completed with getting the System organized. Partly as a result of the poor publicity only about 550 students bought cards, a pitifully small number in a University of 12,000. Some of the contracted stores are already complaining that their discount has not brought in enough trade to pay for itself...
Nine members of Congress today proposed a new, voluntary health insurance plan designed to provide the same care to the poor and well-to-do, at a cost scaled to each person's income...
This leaves Maureen free for rapture No. 2, a poor young lawyer (Dana Andrews without a beard) who is also a drunkard. Not to be caught napping a second time, Maureen sobers him up, supplies him with bed & board, and helps him to start a puppet theater in the mews. After a stretch of successful puppeteering, the couple's happiness is threatened by the return of Dana's wife from the U.S. But everything is straightened out in time for a jolly family reunion with Maureen's respectable parents down in Surrey...
...joke, in early 19th Century England, to be the eldest daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built...