Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amsterdam docks, Appel worked as a youth in his father's : barber shop, early decided against so niggling and polite a trade. Painting was his only care, and to pursue it, he lived in hunger and rags, moving often and taking to the road for long stretches. The poor Belgian miners to whose grandfathers the young Van Gogh had ministered as a tortured divinity student were amazed when the ragged Appel appeared to paint them in his turn, in their turn ministered to him, sharing what they had with the hot-eyed and hungry traveler...
...Stockbroker Paul Gauguin turned from the busy world of men and money to the pursuit of nature and art. On the evidence of his paintings, he enjoyed life thereafter, though he was dirt-poor. By last week the busy world had fully caught up with Gauguin. In just 30 seconds at Sotheby's in London, one of the happy renegade's last South Sea canvases was sold for a record $364,000. Other high prices in the auction of 185 impressionists and postimpressionists: $406,000 for Cezanne's Peasant in a Blue Blouse...
...General Foods had carried the burden of the industry for years without making a penny of profit, but World War II shot the industry's business up to 1 billion Ibs. in 1945. Suddenly the get-rich attractions were so strong that fly-by-night outfits rushed out poor-quality products, gave frozen foods a bad name with the public. Result: the "Great Blood Bath," in which dozens of companies folded. General Foods confidently rode out the storm, turned the profit corner for good as the public regained confidence in the industry...
...Poor No More, Ruark...
Dunham eventually remarries, after a harrowing period in which Katherine and an older brother are farmed out haphazardly to a succession of relations. But the new wife is plain and the family poor. Dunham withdraws into brooding resentment, emerging now and then to tongue-lash his wife and belt-whip his children...