Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eschewing orchids" may be hard on the florists and "courage" is not such a poor watchword...
Retailers, who had feared a sharper limit on charge accounts, were relieved. The main irony was that FRB's order will hit the luxury-goods buyer hardest. The new-rich poor are prompt payers anyway, and have more cash than ever before. But the new-poor rich are notoriously "slow pay." They make a practice of paying their big bills only once or twice a year, to save interest...
Many were shy; few were selfconscious; all were pleased. The 320 couples who stood up together in Mexico City's Abelardo Rodriguez Market at the State-sponsored Cinco de Mayo mass wedding ceremony were too poor ever to have been legally married before...
...accuse poor Mr. DeMille of doing its casting; thirty minutes of this opus will convince anyone that its parts were dished out by either the neighborhood horsedoctor or Mickey Rooney. Paulette Goddard, whom we recall quite pleasantly as a sweater-girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...
...example, correlation of the information gathered by the physician with that of the psychiatrist shows that there is a relationship between some minor physical defects such as poor teeth, frequent headaches, flat feet and certain less desirable personality traits. Seventy per cent of 56 students tagged by the psychiatrists were labeled the same way by the physician, who based his opinion only on pulse rate and blood pressure measurements. When the anthropologist and the psychiatrist got together, they found that a lack of harmony in body measurements in a man may be related to personality weakness. Breadth of shoulder...