Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rayburns were Hard-Shell Baptists, and poor as the dirt they worked in. Father Rayburn told his eight sons again & again: "Character is all I have to give you. Be a man." But when Sam finally left the farm for college, Father Rayburn, solemnly shaking hands with him at the station, pressed $25 into his hand. That was the total cash capital of the Rayburns...
Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...
...Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King). It was the shame of the Savoy dynasty that Vittorio Emanuele III helped Fascismo destroy the democratic constitution his grandfather had upheld...
There are innumerable tales about the characters in Pottsville, in western New York (where Tutt first practiced law); in pre-World-War-I Manhattan (where Tutt learned that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World...
MURDER RENTS A ROOM - Sara Elizabeth Mason- Crime Club ($2). A Yankee boarder at a down-at-heel Alabama plantation helps a slow but sure Southern sheriff unriddle two murders that disrupt the peace of a poor, proud family. Crime, romance, authentic Southern atmosphere and rule-of-thumb detecting are satisfac torily mixed...