Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three snelly days the poor thiggin gaes stravagin' about Argyll wi' the King's men rairin' at his duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...
...vicissitudes of man's efforts to love and to be loved," Dr. Menninger writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "But when it comes to hope, our shelves are bare. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devotes many columns to the topic of love, and many more to faith. But . . . poor little hope*... is not even listed." Often the downgrading of hope was not by accident but by design. Most of the great Greeks held that fate was unchangeable, so hope was an illusion and therefore evil. To Aeschylus it was "the food of exiles," and to Euripides, "man's curse...
Running Water. "Logic," Winston Churchill once quipped about the House, "is a poor guide compared with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who declares that "my first duty is to the sovereign who appointed me," his second to the palace, and his third to doing what he can for M.P.s...
Apart from Major Hall's crochet hooks. the image that lingers longest with the reader is that of poor Ella Haggin on a coconut isle with the ominous thrum of bongo drums in her ear, while the natives chomp raw fish for an appetizer. Author Eliot confides that eventually Ella got a divorce, but otherwise she leaves this and many another story in just the tantalizingly scrappy shape she found it in family memoirs or the gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears...
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