Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Senator knew it was more than surrender; this was the finely chiseled epitaph of a bill to end the poll tax as a means of disfranchising millions of Negroes and poor whites in eight Southern poll-tax States...
...play, "The Sun Field" is talky and long-winded. Where Broun was witty, the drama is smart-alecky and cheap; where Broun was inquisitive and thoughtful, Lazarus' work lapses into a poor imitation of an Ibsen problem play. Only in some of the conversations among baseball players does Broun shipe through, and even then much of the dialogue is dated and thoroughly unfunny...
...before under 24 hours). Still later, he broke many other records. Once, for American Airlines, he and Jo Doolittle flew a Lockheed transport through cloud, fog and snow from New York to San Diego in eleven hours, 59 minutes-just four minutes better than the previous transport record. "Damn poor piloting," said Doolittle, who had made the flight mainly on his instruments...
...Luftwaffe's late, great Ernst Udet exhibited three German planes in Buffalo. Doolittle casually asked Udet for permission to try one. Udet watched Doolittle whip around the sky, hid his head in his hands and moaned: "Oh, my God, my poor plane...
...ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in Chicago he drew imitation Charles Dana Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired...