Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russell Long was sorry, he said, that his first formal words had to be spoken under such circumstances, i.e., talking to death a Senate rule against filibustering. His desk was piled high, he said, turning on the old Huey quaver, with letters from the poor, the sick, the disabled, pleading for his help. But this other matter had to be taken care of first. He had to protect those same people from a change in the Senate rules "which some future oppressive group could use to grind them to dust...
Most First Ladies, thrust into power by their husbands' skill in electioneering, were either unfitted, disinclined or too poor for the expensive game. Young, dark-eyed Mrs. Grover Cleveland was the last White House mistress to exert social dominance (she frowned on the bustle and the bustle disappeared). The White House experienced a brief, last burst of gaiety when "Princess Alice" Roosevelt (now the widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) made her debut there and was serenaded wherever she went with Alice Blue Gown...
...Crimson squad suffered most from poor ball handling, and they were thrown off their attack time and time again by interception. Captain Chip Gannon held high-scoring George Sella to 12 points in a fine exhibition of defensive work...
...poor section of Madrid, Correspondent Bigart talked to the Rev. Carlos Aranjo. " 'In Madrid we can't complain,' [the Evangelical pastor] said. 'It's the national capital, and the government is anxious not to offend foreigners. But in the provinces it is quite different. Eight or ten chapels have been forced to close...
...great regard for the prize itself; he believes the selections are generally poor and he is appalled that "Hemingway, one of our best writers, has never gotten it." Yet the creation of George Apley (and perhaps the winning of the Pulitzer) made further truck with Mr. Moto distasteful to his creator. He went on writing about Moto, "but it gradually came over me that slick-magazine writing -where the hero slips on a banana peel and the heiress falls in love with him and they get married and go off to Monte Carlo-was baloney. It was very late...