Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mildly disgusting, since all she screams for is for Sister Sonia to marry someone so she can sink her hooks into a high-voiced young Icelander who looks like something the WAACS would probably be glad to have. Of course, both of them gallop over the worn visage of poor Holloway...
...compared to the picture's star, Sonia Henie, Hollywood's biggest bid for mercy killing. Within the course of an evening, Miss Henie stands up her date, necks with a Marine she's picked up, convinces her family she's engaged to him, scares the daylights out of the poor fellow, kicks Holloway in the face--what did you expect? --lies to the preacher, then tells her family she's married, then tells them she was only kidding, and so on--far into the night...
...Since the boat is not well equipped and inside being narrow, food being scarce and poor you'll feel uncomfortable during the short time on the boat. Those losing patience and disordering the regulations will be heavily punished for the reason of not being able to escort...
...return to Chile only wages and taxes. Chile's agricultural land is sparse and dominated by the landed gentry on their great fundos. The nation's industrial workers average less than $200 yearly, her agricultural workers less than $100. Santiago's dank slums and pasty-faced poor are as prominent a feature as Chile's snow-crusted Andes...
...original abolitionists; men and women wholly devoted to a lofty pursuit, and surrendering for it much that others most prize: and in the retrospect of the traveler through life, the most eminently blessed come forth from among all ranks and orders of men, some being rich and others poor; some illustrious and others obscure; but all having one point of resemblance, that they have not staked their peace on anything so unreal as money or fame...