Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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French Is Poor...
...turn of the century his fame had spread and his Lying-in Hospital was endowed by Frederic Adrian Delano, uncle of President Roosevelt. From then on Dr. DeLee alternated between delivering socially prominent mothers at $2-3,000 a baby, poor mothers for nothing. Today Lying-in Hospital is a $2,000,000 institution connected with the University of Chicago. In its gleaming delivery rooms, 3,000 babies a year are born...
American League pennant. From the high-powered machine that finished 17 games ahead of their nearest rival last year, the Yankees have so far lost only one cog: First Baseman Johnny Sturm. To replace him, Manager Joe McCarthy has two candidates: Oldtimer Buddy Hassett (recently purchased from the poor Boston Braves) and a promising rookie named Eddie Levy. Among a half-dozen other Yankee farmhands considered to have enough savvy for the Big Team this year are Pitchers Johnny Lindell and Hank Borowy, who between them won 44 games for the Newark Bears last season...
...best to get a little honest salvage away from Raymond Massey, head of the highjackers and a rat, old-style. Romancing the pretty salvage wrecker around are Sea Captain John Wayne, who seems quite depressed, and Shipowner Ray Milland, who is anything but. He gets her. In the end, poor Paulette, surrounded by dead and dying salvagers, wails: "This is all my doin...
...mother, in her girlhood, was bonded-out to an Ohio farmer. Sherwood and his sister and his brothers were deeply poor children of an irresponsible father. In his early 20s he enlisted and served a tame, funny, delightfully told few weeks in the Spanish-American War. In his hunger for money, he also developed an Alger-boy slickness which he was later to regret; worked at odd-jobs, with race horses, in factories, writing advertising copy; became at length a paint manufacturer and the respectable head of a respectable family...