Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Bob is annoyed with his teeth...
...wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could not bring himself to dispense with a manservant. Ugh! Be a tramp or be a millionaire; it matters little which: what does matter is being a poor relation of the rich; and that is the very devil...
Ultimate Discoveries. No longer driven by the goad of poor gentility, Millionaire Shaw is as ready as any tycoon to bemoan the woes of being wealthy. In his conversations with Neighbor Winsten, the Shavian past & present unroll like an endless, multicolored ribbon...
...July 17. Poor whiggedie whellow was very sick in his stomach . . . but . . . brisk as ever this morning...
...Poor Bob . . . his head went slap through a pane of glass...