Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Weather seemed to be a general complaint in the college circuit Saturday with Colgate's with over Brown the only major game to take place. Both Yale and Princeton had to postpone scheduled meetings...
...presentation at Brattle Hall is an old play of about six years back, "Reflected Glory." In a way it seems a shame that the dust was disturbed, for the play was none-too-good when Tallulah Bankhead starred in it on its last appearance, and it makes a poor vehicle for the stage debut of Gloria Swanson, the well-known screen star. The play deals with the life of a rising actress and her feelings about life in the theatre. She babbles constantly about wanting to marry and have a home of her own, but the audience knows from...
...Waller sharecropped a wheat and tobacco farm in Pittsylvania County in southern Virginia. His landlord was Oscar Davis, a white tenant farmer who, no matter how hard he worked and sang hymns in the Methodist church, never got out of debt. Black and white, Waller and Davis were two poor, desperate men at the bottom of the South's economic heap. When the Government curtailed Davis' tobacco allotment, Davis cut Waller's acreage and denied the poverty-stricken Negro his due: one-quarter share of the threshed wheat. The Waller family-Annie, his aunt, Mollie, his wife...
...American in four thinks some form of socialism would be a good thing for the U.S., the FORTUNE Survey of public opinion revealed last week. Surprisingly, 39.9% of U.S. executives favor socialism, as against only 24.5% of the poor...
...Nazis, of course, had the general at their mercy, but the general also held cards. The French people held him close to their hearts; Laval dared not turn him over to the Germans. Finally the Nazis had to content themselves with a promise by the general, who was in poor health anyway, that he would not interfere in Vichy-German affairs. Last week the general was living with his sister in Lyons...