Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...Hugh Poor, superintendent of Pressure Stills, who had a certificate from grammar school, started with the company before 1900. Dr. M. F. Smarts, half his age, who had a chemical Ph.D., came in over his head as superintendent. Both men were profoundly embarrassed about the situation; both knew it was just and inevitable. They respected and rather liked each other; only the nervousness of General Manager Oscar Sayers made their first meeting difficult. The dialogue among these three is as perfectly calibrated as Lardner, and at least as historically illuminating...
...turned the page.) Casey is understandable, but this. Yes, Dan, I know Saltonstall won, but who ever heard of Tom Eliot? Yes, Gene. Benny Goodman did play at Carnegie Hall, but we can't have a campaign for Frankie Newton. Vag skipped a few pages, then pulled up short. Poor Joe, his knuckles raw, was still trying to break his way through the barred doors of Boylston. Have to get the Student Council in on this, he muttered. Then, remembering, he stretched his arm out, palm downward, in salute. Suddenly he heard a panting behind him. Relax, Ted, he thought...
...meeting has shown none of the advances in strategy or collaboration which might have made last night's news the "greatest story of the year." Its publicity can only be a boomerang in the face of Washington and the press. To over-emphasize the good news is as poor policy as to conceal the bad; to herald in superlatives the intangible accomplishments of the current meeting can only minimize when it comes the effect of a realized collaboration among the United Nations...
Waitresses are actually quitting their jobs, says John W. Mason, Continental Hotel headwaiter, because poor tipping makes war jobs look bigger and bigger, but even during the pourboire drought, Harvard men are always good tipsters. At least when they come to the Continental...