Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I am approached by an eager acquaintance who asks, "Is it true your child resembles an elephant, Mrs. Tytla?" (with the same expressions, incidentally, as the gossiping elephants in Dumbo), I am compelled, like poor Mrs. Jumbo, to waddle off, as I mutter to myself, "A wit, no doubt." However, being fully aware of the havoc that can be wrought ... on an impressionable small child, I am appealing to you, as a mother, to right this terrible wrong. (Besides, we have no space left in which to store the tons of peanuts that continue to arrive daily.) Therefore...
...Spain I was used to the immorally rich and the immorally poor; ... to what I called the 'outclass of society' . . . the people who, when I played in a movie house as a child to earn a living, after hours of constant work until two o'clock in the morning, came with objectionable women and made us run the whole show for them. . . . [They] in my opinion, in a very large part, kindled the revolution which cost thousands of lives, and gave the tragic opportunity for a dress rehearsal of the actual...
...likely that some of the men who have done well in the past in downhill and slalom will repeat their performances again this year. Both the latter events are being held on Suicide Six, which is a mean hill under any circumstances, and may be doubly treacherous under poor snow conditions...
Bartlett, N. H., 10 inches, skiing fair; Canaan, N. H., no snow, no skiing; Cannon Mountain, Franconia, N. H., 18 inches, fair to poor; Dartmouth region, 3 inches, skiing poor; Intervale, N. H., 3 inches, skiing poor; Jackson, N. H., 8 inches, skiing fair; Laconia, N. H., no snow, no skiing...
Outside in the Yard the snow was melting dingily and people were waling fast with their coast collars turned up. Vag looked down at them from Emerson steps. Poor fellows, they probably had one, or even two more ordeals to face. No wonder they were rushing. In his place they would have all the time in the world...