Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local press has led us to believe that the poor old lady earned nary a penny from that song, escaped burial in a potter's grave only at the last minute when some local society or club stepped in and contributed to a more fitting burial...
Sorry you disliked my life of an average New Yorker (TIME, Dec. 18). . . . A cousinly misunderstanding is no fault of the average journalist. The average editor who employs Englishmen to write about you and Americans to write about the United Kingdom is not really to blame. The poor fish is the average reader who on both coasts of the Atlantic selects the worm to taste before he swallows the hook. Even you, mighty angler that you are, must not tell them the bait is phony; otherwise, we shall all go short on Fridays...
...reciprocated with utter frankness."You have a very poor opinion of the German people," said a Foreign Office official to him.† Answered Mr. Villard: "I have a far higher opinion of the German people than your government has. ... I am willing to believe that they can be trusted with the truth, and your government is not." When Dr. Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State in Bohemia-Moravia, told him that every German was behind Führer Adolf Hitler, Mr. Villard promptly disagreed, said he had met many anti-Nazi Germans...
...struggled against what they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny the War Office contention that kilts take too much wool, and they insist...
Frederick Merk, professor of History, has joined the increasing number of faculty men who have issued statements concerning the poor quality of tutoring school material...