Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...modest limits of order." He counters: "Confine: I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too." There is certainly nothing "dated" in this joke to spoil it, but it would hardly rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce and "new men" like the ambitious Malvolio. And rather than the "robust comedy" which Miss Hughes wants, the mellowness...
...Minister Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late Ramsay, called on 14 of the less heavily bombed boroughs of London last week to give shelter to 20,000 homeless from boroughs which have suffered more. In the swank West End many vacant homes and apartments were turned over to the poorest evacuees from grimy Limehouse and other East End slums. The once pro-Nazi Lord Redesdale, whose daughter the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford came home from Naziland with a bullet mysteriously embedded in her throat, offered his big London house to 90 homeless people (TIME, Sept. 30) but received...
...season. A dictionary definition is 'the hottest or warmest season of the year, including June, July and August in the northern hemisphere.' . . . Moreover, so people have written English in poetry and prose. 'No price is set on the lavish summer, June may be had by the poorest comer.' June, not just June...
After a run of superior material, the hockey team lapsed last winter. Its season was the poorest in years, and it was no match for a good Yale team. The basketball five, handicapped by lack of height, played fine ball at times, but was not of championship calibre, either in the Eastern league or against Yale. Another great Yale swimming team outmanned the Crimson...
...activities in Mexico," snapped Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera in Washington when Chairman Martin Dies of the Dies Committee said he had "incontrovertible information" that German experts had laid out and equipped 26 camouflaged airplane landing fields along the border. Mexicans from President Cárdenas to the poorest peon knew that a fifth column was on the march south of the Rio Grande. They also knew that its immediate object was not to prepare Mexico for the advent of Adolf Hitler but to keep Uncle Sam out of Europe by keeping him busy in his own backyard...