Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Largesse. In Manhattan, an unemployed waitress perched on a window sill, showered $14-worth of nickels, dimes, quarters to passers-by in the street. She explained to police: "I felt sorry for those poor men." An indignant waiter sputtered that the largesse was his cache of tips...
...small, trim-mustached man who looks like a blend of Adolphe Menjou and Anthony Eden, Claudio Arrau at 38 is an old hand in the concert field. As a lad of 20 he made a short U.S. tour in 1924, but failed to go over, and left with a poor opinion of U.S. musical taste. Europe promptly claimed him. Until the war, Pianist Arrau was content to divide his lucrative concert time between Europe and South America, playing 125 concerts a year...
...female roles in the production that most of the audience was deceived as to their sex for a long time. When they learned the truth there was much complaining on all sides, a typical remark being, "Aw gee, we didn't think it was them kind of blondes." One poor confused selectee even went so far as to proffer a bouquet of flowers to the leading "lady," Dick Whittemore...
...slowly but steadily toward Indian self-government. By the Act of 1935, provincial self-government became a fact. Eight of the eleven British provinces came under majority Governments of Mohand as Gandhi's and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Indian National Congress, a great nationalist catchall of rich & poor, Hindu & Moslem, left & right. The Congress is the most powerful political group in India, though it has never had more than 4,500,000 paying members. The other three provinces had coalition governments...
Coach Earl Brown's men were decisively' outplayed by a spirited Blue quintet, which would have rolled up even more of a score had it not been for its poor shooting. The final score...