Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interrupted what threatened to be a lengthy and irrelevant tale. Bertie came back shaking his head. "Speaking of Jeeves," he said. "That was Jeeves himself. He just heard the news. Seemed to take it pretty hard. Y'know," said Bertie, in an awed, incredulous tone, "I believe the poor old blighter was squiffed...
...editors and writers attending the Institute at the opening session yesterday, Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Thompson, author of the military treatise "Modern Battles," called for "less sugar-coating around our military reports." He emphasized that he did not mean the reports were false, but rather that their presentation was poor. "The great American public could and would prefer to take a stronger diet of military reports that contained more down to the earth tactical stuff," he declared...
William Mendrek mugs his way into a pretty respectable rendition of a drunken newspaper editor, but Robert Perry is unconvincing as the male lead. A few catchy lines help to liven up the show, but they are too rare to compensate wholly for a comparatively poor plot and rather poor acting...
...Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...
...example, when a pinster triumphs and wins free games, "fees," spectators race about in a mystic trance shouting "Pinball," a call as rousing to Bow Street as Rheinhardt is to the Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described as "Gottlieb working overtime" or "Harry having his foot on the pedal." Even baseball contributed two terms: the "Merkle ball" which slides straight down with only one more bumper to light, and the "Owen ball" which the pinster cannot control. A "New man ball," on the other hand...