Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Callahan isn't quite sure just how the Crimson squad will emerge from this stiff competition. Poor weather has confined its practice to the Briggs Cage "dustbowl." Furthermore, he points out that "it's pretty hard to tell anything about the squad before it has played in actual competition." He does admit that the club will be out to avenge the terrible 31-0 beating they got from the Tigers last year and to win the traditional Yale game...
However, the CRIMSON regrets that a failure to explain fully the purposes of the material, plus a quotation in poor taste misled some readers as to the actual Intent of the three paragraphs...
Siragusa also blasted the Zenith claim as "very poor advertising, about the poorest taste I ever saw . . . Nobody knows how or where or when the proposed new bands will fall." Admiral's Adman Seymour Mintz cried indignantly: "The public doesn't even know what a turret tuner is. All you have to do is put in some new condenser strips for higher frequencies. Just take out the old and put in the new. Why throw a scare into people before you need...
...takes a passing glance at the high, cool beauties of Kashmir, the shaded Western luxuries of India's rich, and the dark, woebegone face of an Indian waif circled by three buzzing flies. It watches a family of Untouchables eating a nameless dirty mush, then joins a poor but caste-proud Brahman for a chaste meal of fruit and vegetables, arranged, as elegantly as a still-life painting, on a large plantain leaf...
...Fingal, a stringy bit of town scum, and his pal Pelancey, a handsome but dim-witted giant, find a compromising letter in a jacket sent to Pelancey's dry-cleaning shop. They decide to blackmail the man who wrote it, and their scheme is so successful that the poor fellow commits suicide...