| 单词 | third-rate |
| 例句 | The first of the three is-phrases, is brutally targeting civilians, is the most deeply embedded one; it is part of a relative clause that modifies third-rate Serbian military. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Did we really think that little Mica, undefeated in its own third-rate league, could ever stand up to the big-city powerhouses around the state? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In her book, "High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America," Harris said the prevalence of overprocessed foods, low-quality meats, and second- or third-rate produce in minority neighborhoods amounts to "culinary apartheid." Film explores African-Americans' unhealthy "soul food" habit 2012-12-27T17:01:21Z This novelistic reimagining of the “third-rate burglary” proposes surprising motives for the break-in and the 18-minute gap, and has a sympathetic Nixon. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z These are not grand comic villains; they are too third-rate. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z His mom drove him everywhere to play, often staying in third-rate hotels and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made with store brands because she couldn’t afford anything more. Tim Howard’s ‘The Keeper’ Tells That Athlete’s Story 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z But in this field, buyers who are more sophisticated than in others are no longer prepared to squander money on second- or third-rate works billed as masterpieces. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z Occasionally, they would rent it out to second- and third-rate telethons. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “It was a third-rate attempted burglary. That’s what it was. And it failed.” John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. Her action work feels like a recent addition to her versatile career, but Theron has been brawling since her big-screen debut in “2 Days in the Valley,” a third-rate “Pulp Fiction” knockoff from 1996. The Pleasure of Watching Charlize Theron Throw a Punch 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z With too many third-rate pictures, the lackluster session was a minor disaster. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z What a dreary, third-rate attitude; what a great way to nurture intellectual laziness. Hold that tweet! Artists should stick to the day job 2012-05-23T14:25:04Z If you want the advice of a third-rate critic, leave your baggage at the door – but you might want to bring some boxing gloves, just in case. Proms 2012: week five in review 2012-08-15T16:32:29Z Millions of people watching a third-rate vocalist seem great amongst a sea of mediocrity. Paul Weller: the upsetter 2010-08-26T20:30:00Z A teaser released on July 4 showed Mr. Trump calling Mr. Cohen “a third-rate character.” Sarah Palin Says She Was ‘Duped’ by Sacha Baron Cohen 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Her film career has locked her into a Sisyphean purgatory of third-rate romcoms that bring her humiliation. Jennifer Aniston's success rests on our thinking of her as a loser | David Cox 2010-03-22T10:45:00Z The story, four months after the White House had labeled the break-in a “third-rate burglary,” represented a huge advance in bringing the crimes of Watergate closer to the Oval Office. The Ben Bradlee we knew: Friend, fierce editor and a truth-seeker above all Another dim slice of whimsy from the director of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, in this case a satire on the wimps who read and in some cases write third-rate sci-fi fantasy. Gentlemen Broncos 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z A girl’s first gig as an official no one involves watching a third-rate theater troupe mocking the very thing she’s not supposed to care about anymore. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 5: Hold the Door 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Watergate was a third-rate burglary, called forth by a paranoid president and executed by clowns. Book World: James Grady’s ‘Last Days of the Condor’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Will his or her reputation actually be threatened by third-rate material? Jeff Buckley’s life after death: “Lost” albums can be sketchy, but “You and I” could be the missing piece of the Gen X legend’s legacy 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Or is he a fine actor wasted on such third-rate material? You review: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010-05-10T12:03:00Z Why did this idler, this third-rate artist, this undistinguished soldier, this preposterous ranter who offered religious hatred, dictatorship and war, appeal to so many? 'Hitler': the mystery of the F?hrer's appeal 2012-04-11T22:26:08Z He reads a lot and works backstage during the summer at a variety theater with a third-rate show. Review | Kate Atkinson’s dreamy detective returns, and his first case is a tangle of sex and lies 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z But when it delivers, this story of a third-rate travelling troupe's attempt to stage an appallingly unfunny farce is theatrical bliss, with its catalogue of missed cues, falling scenery, and backstage squabbles. This week's new theatre 2013-03-23T06:00:18Z Kaufman, he says, is “a third-rate talent who no doubt despises me as much as I do him.” Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Suddenly, from nowhere, the Zulus appear, hooting and howling, to surround the third-rate wagons of this third-rate movie. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Not so much here — though I admit it’s a riot, for about a minute, to see her cut loose like a pickled diva on a third-rate talk show. Review: In ‘Thunderbodies,’ War, Sheeple and Psychedelic Muumuus 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Nixon, on the tapes, even quibbles with his press secretary’s characterization of Watergate as a “third-rate burglary.” John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. They began playing covers at social clubs in their teens before becoming tutors at community music studio the Bunker, where they attempted to divert local teenagers from Oasis and "third-rate Oasis rip-offs". Field Music: Rock around the crockery 2010-11-22T21:46:00Z Trump, an easily bruised banana, of course then appeared on television to blast Kamin as a “third-rate” critic. Must-see morning clip: Go away, Donald Trump! 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z At times, that's a good thing: The story of April, an English professor at Sinclair College, a third-rate institution in Providence, R.I., Loss and attraction power Maria Flook's 'Mothers and Lovers' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z But I will say I am old enough to remember what was initially characterized as a “third-rate burglary” but grew over the following two years into a government crisis. The new Watergate Hotel is decidedly upscale while capitalizing on its infamous past 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Before the nation’s eyes, a “third-rate burglary” blossomed into a constitutional crisis. Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Today, it's still true that even a third-rate tearjerker will be given more consideration than a comic romp. Booker prize 2010 smiles on comic novels 2010-10-13T10:48:00Z "Isn't it blindingly obvious from the title that this is a third-rate allegory?" The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-03-10T20:00:01Z Famously, the White House had dismissed the June 1972 break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex as “a third-rate burglary.” Book review: ‘Washington Journal,’ reporting Watergate, by Elizabeth Drew There are two ways to read “Sutton,” by J. R. Moehringer: as a third-rate novel with a deep and crippling cornball streak, or as a loose and journalistic speculative biography of a famous bank robber. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z “Country music was considered a second- or even third-rate art form in the entertainment capitals of New York and Los Angeles.” Frank Peppiatt, a Creator of ‘Hee Haw,’ Dies at 85 2012-11-13T02:15:45Z The bored, standoffish Swedish people around them barely tolerate their third-rate sales pitch, and seize any opportunity to sneak away, with feigned Scandinavian politeness. If Wes Anderson and Lars von Trier made a sitcom, it would look something like this strange Scandinavian comedy 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Sitting through a third-rate, unreleasable film is a thoroughly dismal experience, and repeated exposure to lameness requires a sort of grim, monocular focus that means festival-going can become a genuine ordeal. Edinburgh's festival of non-discovery 2010-06-21T15:50:00Z But there were ardent fans of that marvelously tasteless tale of a third-rate theater producer and his nebbishy accountant, who scheme to get rich off a spectacularly bad musical called "Springtime for Hitler." Village Theatre's 'Producers' is full of pizazz 2012-05-16T22:01:11Z “How did a politician as tough and canny as Richard Nixon allow himself to be brought down by a ‘third-rate burglary’?” Robert Redford to Produce a Documentary About Watergate 2012-04-02T22:05:31Z Dismissed by the White House press secretary as a “third-rate burglary,” the break-in set off a chain of events that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in August 1974. ‘White House Plumbers’ Revisits the Fringes of Watergate 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z "It's a third-rate rip-off and the downstairs are unhappy at having been given such minor parts." Digested read: Habits of the House by Fay Weldon 2012-08-12T18:00:00Z When there are real heroes to extol such as the Baum Group and the Scholl family, we don't need this deeply compromised, third-rate novel by a second-rate writer. Letters: Alone in Berlin is morally compromised 2011-01-11T00:04:00Z And yet, despite the actor’s audible affection for the book, the story itself struck my middle-aged, 2019 ears as more effortful than effervescent — less Swift or Carroll or Baum than third-rate Marx Brothers. Rainn Wilson Narrates a New Audiobook of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z There is great hip-hop, but clearly there is also second- and third-rate hip-hop. The conversation: Classical music vs rock'n'roll 2012-07-13T19:30:02Z To a significant degree, I found the user comments on the third-rate Breitbart-affiliated social media site where I streamed the movie "My Son Hunter" more interesting — and definitely more illuminating — than the film itself. "My Son Hunter": There's barely even a movie inside this deep-state right-wing grift 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z "Not even a third-rate character would come up with that plotline." So Much For That by Lionel Shriver | Digested read 2010-03-23T00:05:00Z One paper described it as "a third-rate panel show featuring nano-celebs". Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z Just as you begin to become engaged with one of the works that is truly exceptional in the collection, a third-rate Renoir insinuates itself into your peripheral vision, and the magic is gone. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s not the third-rate attempted burglary that matters — it’s the monumental coverup. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. Strange to say that the outcome, everywhere from politics to publishing, is often second- or third-rate. Andrew Anthony 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z I like when there are many people who do good things, because you work better if there is competition than if there are only third-rate people. Karl Lagerfeld on Fur (Yea), Selfies (Nay) and Keeping Busy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z “He is a third-rate lawyer, not a classy guy. Really trashy, trashy, trashy.” Julie Delpy: ‘Women were bred to be directors’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Wild, passionate love — for a vulgar third-rate actress named Alix — had almost wrecked his life, but he made the sensible choice and married the pretty blue blood who could help his career. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z If Trump emerged from the make-believe world of pro wrestling, Ramaswamy emerges from the make-believe world of social media and the third-rate sectors of the right-wing media sphere. Nikki Haley is the best Trump alternative | David Brooks 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Instead, she resembled a third-rate politician who speaks exclusively to partisan cable news networks. Hernández: Where's the accountability? USC president Carol Folt still silent about Mike Bohn 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z At the time, Mr. Trump called Mr. Massie a “third-rate grandstander” for opposing a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package at the height of the pandemic. Rep. Massie endorses Ron DeSantis for 2024 Republican presidential nomination 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Maybe Russia now looks like what DeSantis called a “third-rate military power” because Western arms and intelligence helped Ukrainian forces decimate the Russian military, destroying perhaps half of its tanks. Opinion | Ron DeSantis, potential GOP standard-bearer, sounds out of his depth 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z "I think they've shown themselves to be a third-rate military power," he said of Russia on Fox News, as if that justified rolling over and letting Putin take Ukraine. Worse than partisanship: GOP hurt Ukraine to hit Biden 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Joining the drama club, she had a starring role in a production of William Inge’s comedy “Bus Stop,” playing a third-rate nightclub singer who fascinates a cowboy. Stella Stevens, who brought glamour and comic touch to films, dies at 84 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The nonconference portion of the schedule has not been kind to the conference, with a slew of losses to second- and third-rate opponents. Pac-12 top 10: Washington State stumbles in bowl game; Oregon State cruises to 10th win 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z “I watched the results, I watched the highlights, but I’m like, ‘Do we need more second- or third-rate MMA?’ The UFC is synonymous with mixed martial arts. Has a new challenger emerged? 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The previous year, a White House meeting between Trump and congressional leaders on U.S. policy in Syria erupted in anger when Trump reportedly called Pelosi a "third-rate politician" and later said she was "unhinged." Trump is not 'man enough' to testify in Jan. 6 probe, Pelosi says 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z We listened, all the while knowing that USC has a first-rate offense and a third-rate defense. Letters to Sports: Why do the supposedly 'smart' Dodgers look so stupid? 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Alicia is searingly brilliant at mathematics, ethereally beautiful and usually in conversation with a troupe of third-rate Vaudevillian hallucinations. Cormac McCarthy, 89, has a new novel — two, actually. And they're almost perfect 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The initial front-page coverage, by contrast, shines most of its light on the presence of movie star Jane Fonda and the amused reactions of foreign reporters, one belittling her as a “third-rate Vanessa Redgrave.” A1 Revisited: Our coverage of 1970 protest showed neglect of vital Native issues 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z That said, he has only attempted 211 career passes, and many came against third-rate defenses. Analysis: Here are the top 10 players in the Pac-12 entering 2022 football season 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z What a disappointment, a player considered to be a class act operating as if he were a third-rate politician from Braves country. Hernández: Beneath the tears, Freddie Freeman plays the role of entitled athlete perfectly 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Having dismissed Rangers' prospects ahead of the Dortmund game and then decrying them as a "third-rate team" in the aftermath, the great man has gone again, confidently forecasting that Leipzig will win this. Can depleted Rangers spring another Euro shock? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Western allies can supply Ukraine’s resistance indefinitely, but Russia is a third-rate economy, already overstretched. Opinion | Zelensky and the West have called Putin’s bluff. Let’s not waver now. 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “This is what you’d expect from Russia, this is what you’d expect from Venezuela. This is third-rate stuff,” he said, according to a transcript. N.Y. attorney general alleges Trump’s business inflated property values, wealth statements 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z “This is what you would expect from Venezuela. This is third-rate stuff.” ‘History is going to judge us,’ Biden says ahead of voting rights speech – live 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z It didn't buy textbooks or strengthen our third-rate grid in this electricity-dependent Digital Age. Why Americans can’t have nice things: We squandered our nation's wealth on pointless wars 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The words 'third-rate' should be plastered all over the place at their team hotel. Can depleted Rangers spring another Euro shock? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z She calls one of her accusers “the Cabbage” and refers to another not by name but as the wife of a third-rate glazier. Review: Spellbinding novelist Rivka Galchen's new book is a hysterical witch hunt 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed it as a “third-rate burglary.” G. Gordon Liddy, Mastermind Behind Watergate Burglary, Dies at 90 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z A third-rate private eye looks into foul play at a British health club. Movies on TV this week: 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z They have some sleazebag reporter from a third-rate magazine having some source quoting me saying, I won’t even use the term, but saying bad things. Trump and Biden clash on climate as Hurricane Sally and wildfires rage – US politics live 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The president vehemently denied the report, attacking the Atlantic as a “third-rate magazine” and criticizing Kelly for not doing a good job as his former chief of staff. Trump’s alleged comments about ‘losers’ buried in military cemeteries leave military leaders off balance 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z A third-rate British spy is sent to an island, unaware he is there to lure Soviet spies. Movies on TV this week: 'Stand by Me' on Showtime and more 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z That’s assuming a driver is fortunate enough to get a chance at second- or third-rate equipment. NASCAR’s top series has had just two black full-time drivers. Can Bubba Wallace change that? 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z “You are a third-rate reporter and what you just said is a disgrace, okay?” Coronavirus crisis highlights Trump’s resistance to criticism — and his desire for fervent praise 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But he broke when he got to a clip of Trump calling ABC News’s Jonathan Karl a “third-rate reporter” who will “never make it” after Karl asked about the inspector general’s report. Stephen Colbert to Trump: ‘Grow up and do your damn job’ 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Trump: You're a third-rate reporter and what you just said is a disgrace, OK? Donald Trump's weak spot is the facts — reporters must keep pressing him 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z "I watched that debacle yesterday and I was furious when he called you a third-rate reporter," Behar told Karl on Tuesday. Joy Behar wants White House reporters to call Trump a liar, walk out of press briefings 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z And when ABC’s Jonathan Karl followed up on that report, Trump called him a “third-rate reporter” who “will never make it.” Trump taunts media as mutual disgust reaches new depths 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Earlier in the day, Trump called Massie a “third-rate Grandstander” on Twitter. Rep. Massie, opponent of $2.2 trillion spending bill, forces House colleagues back to D.C. for vote 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Without referring by name to Ms. Stoddard, an associate editor and columnist for the RealClearPolitics website, Mr. Trump called her a “crazy person” and “third-rate journalist.” Fox News colleagues defend Neil Cavuto after Trump attacks ‘Your World’ host 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z “How mediocre, third-rate and sleazy it is for a fiction writer to appropriate violence and suffering that way.” 'American Dirt' was supposed to be a publishing triumph. What went wrong? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z "I wanted you to say, 'no darling, you are a third-rate president,'" she said. Joy Behar wants White House reporters to call Trump a liar, walk out of press briefings 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z "I am a dissident intellectual, a third-rate nationalist militant, an ultranationalist political position, opposition to both communism and liberal capitalism," he told Fox News. Brazilian far right member of fascist group claims responsibility for Molotov cocktail against 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Then: Initially, Mr. Nixon’s press secretary, Ronald Ziegler, tried to dismiss Watergate as a “third-rate burglary.” Opinion | Why Is Trump Finding More Protection Than Nixon Did? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z A decision about impeachment not only involves the response to a specific act — say, a third-rate burglary. Opinion | The GOP’s defense of Trump has me sinking into cynicism 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z She later insisted Trump botched the insult, calling her “third-grade” rather than “third-rate.” Rep. McCarthy: Pelosi is failing to meet basic standards of due process 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z He fired back, calling me a third-rate talent and said I should be grateful for what little fame I might get from his response to me. Nils Lofgren on Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen: "They both like ragged rock 'n' roll" 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “He was insulting, particularly to the speaker,” Chuck Schumer told reporters, adding: “He called her a third-rate politician.” From Syria to impeachment, Trump is on a war footing 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Pelosi and others at the brief, useless meeting on the ongoing debacle in Syria say that Trump called her a “third-rate politician.” The chaos caucus gets its way 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z As the Democrats got up to leave the meeting, the president shot back: "We'll see you at the polls" and then he reportedly said Pelosi was a "third-rate politician." 'Fox & Friends' hosts on Dems walking out of Syria meeting with Trump: 'Déjà vu all over again' 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Footnote: As if to underscore my point, the dustup between Trump and Democratic leaders--with the president calling the speaker a "third-rate politician"--bumped the Ohio debate way down on many cable news shows. Elizabeth Warren, debate target: Here’s why it may not matter 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z And he berated Ms. Pelosi as a “third-grade politician” or “third-rate politician,” depending on the version, prompting Democrats to walk out of a White House meeting. Trump Lashes Out on Syria as Republicans Rebuke Him in House Vote 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z "He was insulting, particularly to the speaker. She kept her cool completely but he called her a third-rate politician," Schumer said. Democrats walk out of White House meeting after Trump "meltdown" 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Later, she would insist he even botched the insult, calling her “third-grade” rather than “third-rate.” ‘See you at the polls’: Trump and Pelosi have it out 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z He seemed to conflate the two issues when he lashed out Wednesday and called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “third-rate politician.” Analysis: Trump impulsiveness a theme in impeachment, Syria 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z We considered placing the Sun Devils in the No. 3 spot in the South, but they simply haven’t been impressive against third-rate competition. Pac-12 Power Rankings, Week 2: Washington tumbles after tumult against Cal 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “He probably thinks most of them are rather third-rate.” Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s Rasputin, is feeling the heat of Brexit 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z This new material was mostly made up of third-rate imitations of existing newspaper strips, or genre stories echoing adventure, detective, western or jungle pulps. Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z “After several years I became terrified that I was going to spend my life as a hack writer for a third-rate magazine,” she told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 2001. Paule Marshall, literary chronicler of the African diaspora, dies at 90 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It was a third-rate consolation prize for victims and for the Palm Beach police and prosecutors who had worked the case. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z We have a president who co-opted Washington’s Fourth of July celebration and turned it into a third-rate totalitarian display. Had enough debate about Donald Trump? Me too. He's a tyrant and a killer: He must be stopped 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z During a rally in April, he called Smollett a "third-rate" actor and said his case was a "disgrace to our nation." Trump suggests Jussie Smollett owes an apology to 'millions' in 'MAGA COUNTRY' 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z She discussed one man who “urged me to apply for a minor administrative post at his third-rate university because ‘they want a woman, and it’s an awfully important job to consider a woman for.’ Alice Rivlin, budget maestro who ‘helped save Washington’ in fiscal crisis, dies at 88 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z How this must disturb Nixon’s ghost, who has long muttered something about the lack of proof tying him directly to a third-rate burglary. It's painfully clear: today's Congress wouldn't have impeached Richard Nixon | Richard Wolffe 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “My best finds,” he wrote, “were coarse men with whom I could take a glass of toddy in the barroom,” including “third-rate tavern keepers” and itinerant peddlers. Opinion | Can Bar-Stool Democracy Save America? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z “C-I-A,” he whispers, in an early hint that the break-in was more than a “third-rate burglary attempt,” as White House spokesman Ronald L. Ziegler dismissively described it. Watergate conspirator James McCord Jr. died two years ago. His death was never announced. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide. Opinion | George Conway: Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z For every Rolling Stones or Beatles in the mid- to late-1960s were thousands of third-rate copycats willing to be co-opted by savvy producers. Even in the streaming music era, the box set endures. Here are some of the year's best 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z President Trump has called Mr. Avenatti a “third-rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations.” Michael Avenatti Arrested on Suspicion of Domestic Violence in Los Angeles 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z He went on to say that if he is a “third-rate lawyer” and has been able to accomplish all that he has in just six months, “imagine if I was a first-rate lawyer.” Michael Avenatti smacks down Don Jr for calling him a ‘porn star lawyer’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Later on Twitter, Trump called Avenatti a “third-rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations”. Republicans rally round Kavanaugh as Democrats urge him to withdraw 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Last week, the comedian teased his comeback in a video showing Donald Trump berating him as a "third-rate character". Baron Cohen series to air on Channel 4 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Trump recently attacked her coverage with a series of tweets dismissing her as “a third-rate flunkie”. Anthony Scaramucci: 'I’m in the game for a fight. I love the fight' 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Trump recently called her a “third-rate reporter” and claimed he doesn’t speak to her. Documentary chronicles New York Times’ year covering Trump 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Every Republican who does not explicitly call for the ouster of this fleecing third-rate demagogue forfeits the right to ever talk about anyone's wrongdoing ever again. In Letter to E.P.A., Top Ethics Officer Questions Pruitt’s Actions 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Presidents have secrets but they also have power, so if you think they are easily blackmailable, Mr. Brennan may have a third-rate spy novel to sell you. Why Trump Never Speaks Ill of Putin 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “When kids come from backgrounds where they’re the first in their families to go to college, we have to take them seriously, and not flatter them and give them third-rate ideas,” Mr. Furedi told me. Opinion | The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z He also contacted my editor to say that I'm a "nasty guy" and "a third-rate reporter," and that the Los Angeles Times should fire me. Sadly, no one will get to testify on alleged fraud committed by Trump University 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The day after what Nixon’s spokesman would call “a third-rate burglary attempt” took place, the FBI’s major-crimes duty officer, a supervisor named Daniel Bledsoe, opened a federal wiretapping investigation. Opinion | Trump has picked a fight with the FBI. He’ll be sorry. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Fusion GPS is, at best, a third-rate intelligence firm who produced a document based upon information provided by a foreign agent that came from unverified and unsubstantiated sources. Liberal leaders back away from anti-Trump dossier 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Two hundred years ago on New Year’s Day, a third-rate publisher issued an anonymous novel with an outlandish premise, quickly discounting most of the 500 print copies after slow sales. ‘Frankenstein’ Has Become a True Monster 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z When relations soured, officials dismissed Russia as a “third-rate regional power” that would limit its meddling to the fledgling democracies on its periphery. Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z As technology products, many are second- or third-rate, with long load times, broken links and frequent error messages. The ‘Alt-Right’ Created a Parallel Internet. It’s an Unholy Mess. 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z None of your bargain-basement, third-rate “sophistry” or musings will ever persuade me otherwise. What If Our Current State of Affairs Is Actually ‘Normal’? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z "It tends to be the kind of third-rate people or some of the second-rate critics that get all sniffy about it. This is a way of saying: 'Yeah - shut up.'" Jack Reacher creator shares thriller secrets 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z “National security is hard to do well even with first-rate people. It’s almost impossible to do well with third-rate people.” Trump campaign supporters during election snubbed for Pentagon, State Department, national security 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The $100-a-month Time Warner cable packages that required navigating a byzantine menu of third-rate channels would be a distant nightmare. The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z He's been Trumpsulted™ as a "third-rate writer and an unsuccessful one at that." Mr. President, I Demand You Do Your Duty and Insult Me. Please? 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Vlad flashed a half-hearted smile, keen not to look outmanoeuvred by such third-rate power games. Trump and Putin: leaders' body language shows who's the boss | John Crace 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The five arrested culprits, dismissed by Nixon’s press secretary as participants in a “third-rate burglary,” were found to be tied to Nixon’s own Committee to Re-Elect the President, appropriately known as CREEP. Opinion | Trump has become the ringmaster of a circus — but it’s one big distraction 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z And there was that pesky FBI investigation into a “third-rate burglary” at the Watergate office building, about which the media were asking meddlesome questions. Opinion | Get ready for the ‘impeachment election’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z At least Nixon was trying to quash a third-rate burglary and associated felonies. Opinion | The guardrails can’t contain Trump 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z At this point in the Watergate saga, the third-rate burglary was still being covered by two police reporters from the Washington Post. By Donald Trump's standards, the Watergate cover-up was a thing of genius | Walter Shapiro 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z No matter what your politics are, it’s difficult to see the daily goings-on inside the nation’s capital as anything other than a third-rate reality show, thick with cowards, liars and ninnies. Winning? Not Much in Washington, D.C. 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z “First conceal and deny, then when outed by press claim that the communications were routine, innocuous, or incidental — kind of like a ‘third-rate burglary.’ Review | The case for impeaching President Donald J. Trump. (Too soon?) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But he later toned down his message, saying Tusk’s re-election was of third-rate importance to Poland, which was only trying to protect its interests. Poland questions legality of Tusk's EU re-election 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The honeymoon with the third-rate Rams ended about the 20th time Jared Goff ran around like a high school quarterback. Letters: Hey, did you hear? The Chargers are coming 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z She became a frequent target of Mr. Trump on Twitter and during his rallies, where he accused her of dishonesty and called her a “third-rate reporter,” and she received death threats from his supporters. Book Publishers Scramble to Make Sense of Trump’s Rise to Victory 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z “Because of global competition, we have to compete with second- and third-rate countries around the world,” he said, noting that he and his friends discuss Nafta quite a bit these days. Jobless, jaded, and voting for Trump in Ohio: 'He’ll be different, in some way' 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Obama has governed like a third-rate tyrant. Trump and the Emasculated Voter 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z He told media outlets he "didn't like" Ms Kelly and thought she was a "third-rate reporter". US election 2016: Donald Trump's unwise battles - or were they? - BBC News 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Prokhanov, a third-rate novelist, was closely connected with the Army and the intelligence services. Trump and Putin: A Love Story 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Blame it on bad timing, or maybe just bad filmmaking: Even under ideal circumstances, the third-rate action-thriller shenanigans would be by far the least intelligent aspect of “Central Intelligence.” A surprisingly sweet duo at the center of 'Central Intelligence' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In recent weeks, he’s used his microphone and his tweets to label them “third-rate,” “not nice,” phony,” “disgraceful,“ “low-life,” “very unprofessional” and “bad people.” Beat the press: Trump's contempt for media is calculated 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z “They’re getting a third-rate railway for the cost of a very expensive one,” says a consultant. Puffed out 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z He then contacted my boss and said that I'm a "nasty guy" and a third-rate reporter. Donald Trump and me: How I became a 'nasty guy' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z In the days that followed, he lambasted her as, among other insults, a bimbo, lightweight and third-rate reporter. High stakes as Republican candidates take stage for Michigan debate 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z And will Trump be rattled by questions from Kelly, a Fox News star he has called a bimbo, lightweight and third-rate reporter? Donald Trump-Megyn Kelly rematch and other things to watch for in the GOP debate 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But when you work at the Watergate office building — the site for the most infamous “third-rate burglary” in American history — you get to brag. A Watergate icon, now quietly celebrated in a company office 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z But even if a spring football season were viable, Trump didn’t have much interest in a league that was going to be “low class, all third-rate players” anyway. How Donald Trump, with pizazz and bluster, took on the NFL 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z You’re a third-rate politician, who clearly doesn’t understand issues, and is so scared of Megyn Kelly exposing it that you’re looking to use veterans to protect you from facing her questions.” Donald Trump's history with veterans gets renewed scrutiny 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, explaining his decision not to debate this week, he referred to Kelly as a “lightweight” and a “third-rate reporter.” Trump says he won’t participate in GOP debate on Fox News 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Advertisement In the months since, Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized Ms. Kelly as a “third-rate” reporter. Donald Trump, in Feud With Fox News, Shuns Debate 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z See More » In the months since, Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized Ms. Kelly as a “third-rate” reporter. Donald Trump, in Feud With Megyn Kelly, Shuns Debate 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Its American impressionism show was filled with third-rate paintings from first-rate artists — clearly an attempt to pull works from the bowels of Smithsonian storage. Letters to Calendar: Let's talk female directors 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z “The other one is a super liberal newspaper, the Des Moines Register, which is third-rate.” Trump under fire: will 'perfectionist' fold at debate without polling lead? 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Robert Moses, who had previously referred to the city’s leaders as “third-rate men,” simply paid tribute to Governor Smith. The Night New York Saved Itself from Bankruptcy 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z During a 1933 argument, Fitzgerald called his wife a “third-rate writer” with “nothing essentially to say,” according to the Wall Street Journal. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Best Burns Ever 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z I thought he said Kurds, this third-rate radio announcer that I did the show – it was like got you, got you – every question was do I know this one and that one? Donald Trump says Middle East can wait, he'll learn it later 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z I asked, leaving unspoken the illuminating detail of the third-rate proven loser. Condemned and Praised by Trump 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z "We are being served third-rate theater instead of real elections," prominent Polish film director Agnieszka Holland lamented in a TV interview last weekend. Motley mix of players challenge Polish president in election 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Michael Lewis writes in The Big Short that Paulson’s Goldman Sachs coverage said he “was a third-rate hedge fund guy who didn’t know what he was talking about.” Market Pundits Predicting 'Crisis' And 'Crash' Deserve Our Mocking Laughter 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Then, with middle age encroaching, my views radically changed, swerving in the direction of sentiments I associated with slogans in third-rate greetings cards. Why do people relate to fictional characters? 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I wouldn't want most of them telling me anything since most of them have gone to second and third-rate law schools that graduate anybody if they can fog a mirror. Downbeat Legacy for James Brown, Godfather of Soul: A Will in Dispute 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Perhaps the third-rate management gets replaced with second-rate management. Six Rebound Stocks To Buy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z "Plaid Cymru will not allow Wales to be side-lined in the current debate about rebalancing and creating a fairer Britain and we will not settle for third-rate devolution," said Ms Wood. Welsh tax restriction plan abandoned 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z According Michael Lewis’s account in The Big Short, Paulson was, “a third-rate hedge fund guy who didn’t know what he was talking about.” Stanley Fischer's 'Systemic Risk' Hubris Sets The Stage For The Next Fed-Created Crisis 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z In April 1973, Nixon took to the airwaves to talk about the Watergate scandal, which by springtime had ceased to be a “third-rate burglary.” New England editorial roundup 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z “Any third-rate, B-actor crime drama follows the same script,” Mr. Jordan said. Testy Exchange Erupts as I.R.S. Chief Is Questioned on Messages 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z For his part, Trump blames Kamin, whom he calls a “third-rate architecture critic,” for stirring up trouble when the letters recently began to appear on the side of the building. Chicago mayor, billionaire clash over TRUMP sign 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Lord Berkeley, chairman of the Rail Freight Organisation, said: "The problem is that it's got severe gradients, I'm told, and it's quite curvaceous… I would call it a second or third-rate solution." What are the alternatives to a Dawlish rail line? 2014-03-12T12:37:58Z A Glasgow University academic claims "secret and third-rate" assessments by junior officials are arbitrarily hitting more than 40,000 people a year. Stopped benefits claims 'triple' 2014-03-02T08:43:10Z Finally, Gaddafi’s forces were third-rate and had been declining for some time. Lessons From Libya: America Can’t Lead From Behind 2014-02-15T10:45:41Z By the mid-1930s Britain was defending a vast and vulnerable empire encompassing a quarter of the world's territory and population with the dismally depleted military resources of a third-rate power. Was Neville Chamberlain really a weak and terrible leader? 2013-09-30T10:00:55Z The same stifling sort of nostalgia can be seen at festivals padding out programmes with second-rate vintage acts and promoters encouraging third-rate groups to reform. The Rolling Stones at Glastonbury: why grandad rock rolls 2013-06-28T20:00:10Z A set of third-rate platform games starring a slightly characterless dragon. Tomb Raider to Wolfenstein: the reboots with infinite lives 2013-03-08T14:00:00Z If Dan Loeb was going to leak something to the press to juice the stock price, why would he leak it to a third-rate newspaper like the Telegraph? Dan Loeb Doesn't Snitch to Third-Rate British Newspapers 2012-11-19T16:22:26Z The proportion of those in comparison to second-rate lawyers and third-rate politicians is probably fairly low however. Hollywood propaganda 2012-09-29T17:30:00Z “The taking of an embassy was a symbol to Americans: ‘Why are we being pushed around by this third-rate power?’ ” Romney Compares Obama Presidency to Carter’s 2012-09-29T03:03:47Z The majority of works inspected during the panel’s six years, he said, were third-rate fakes that would reappear as soon as the owners sold them to other unsuspecting dupes. Art Scholars Fear Lawsuits in Declaring Works Real or Fake 2012-06-20T02:37:17Z It was not the custom of the early eighteenth century for a French noble to propose marriage to a former laundress who was playing utility parts in a third-rate road show. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z A third-rate marbled paper is used for covering, as prices are not given for better kinds. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z Compared with such a feeling, the romance of the "man of the world" is tame and flat, his poetry but the doggerel jingle of the third-rate variety-show. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z All the characters in the book go mad, and the author's utter inaptitude for literature turns what might have been passable third-rate melodrama into a farce. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Failing in business soon after, he tried the stage in company with his wife, where he speedily broke down, and she continued for some years to figure in third-rate characters at the minor theaters. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z To Napoleon, though, she was as a third-rate show to a country boy who had never before visited the theatre. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z It was a shabby third-rate lodging-house place, as perhaps he knew. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Roads Mostly of second- or third-rate quality, especially in wet weather. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The swift twilight of New York was almost upon him when he was next distracted from his thoughts by the crossing shouts of loud-voiced men bawling forth a catchpenny extra of a third-rate evening paper. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z For some time his military talents were considered of the first order; now a third-rate position is assigned him. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z At last, in October, the theatrical season arrived, with a third-rate company to present "Virginius." Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z A good deal of Boulevard and third-rate Americanism: few retributive relations otherwise. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z In the quiet atmosphere of trifling details and petty etiquette of a third-rate German princedom he ended his days. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z It was a third-rate copy of court life, but these small dignitaries went through the motions and got a lot of fun out of it in one way and another. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z There were one or two hydraulic mines and a pulp mill in the vicinity, and though the place was by no means populous, a company of third-rate entertainers had arrived some days earlier. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z This is queerly contradictory to a disposition found in some Americans to disregard world standards and proclaim a third-rate poet as the Milton of Oshkosh or the Shelley of San Francisco. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Flinging himself down on a seat, Dorian exclaims, "You have killed my love," and after an impassioned tirade answers his own question of "What are you now?" with "A third-rate actress with a pretty face." Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z It is like a performance in a third-rate theatre, where the hero falls before the shot which kills him is fired from the wings. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Why should these girls be losing their time at a second or third-rate school, as seems to be the case? Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z Although one has travelled with third-rate strolling companies and the other has waited in an hotel? The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z "You were a poor girl in a third-rate boarding-house, when I married you," he said. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Many second-and third-rate German novels are ruined for an Anglo-Saxon reader by a lush streak of sentimental gush, a curious blemish in so intellectual and sceptical a race. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z I'm not content with third-rate earls and rather seedy dowagers. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z History, geography, arithmetic, writing, are of rather more value, but even they are of secondary or even third-rate importance. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z “He’ll be remembered as a third-rate, wannabe Castro,” he said, a reference to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Qaddafi, Killed in Hometown, Leaves Libya Legacy of Repression 2011-10-20T15:43:05Z The cotton mills in the South before the war were third-rate affairs. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 2011-10-19T02:00:21.010Z But the remaining tragic writers of the century, with the single exception of Cr�billon p�re, are scarcely third-rate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Jobs was not afraid to blast rivals — chief among them software giant Microsoft, whose products he once described as "really third-rate" and aesthetically tasteless. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs dies at 56 2011-10-06T00:00:00Z To what a wretched, cramped life he was dooming himself and her ... back rooms in greasy, third-rate pensions, never any margin for decent clothes.... Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z He may be a first-class general, but he certainly is a third-rate orator and politician. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z I know I shall come across an unlicensed third-rate public-house, two or three horse-stealers, and more than two or three receivers of stolen goods. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z Because it is so nice to hear second-rate scandal about third-rate people. Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z And it ought to enrage anyone who wants the United States to act like a real country rather than some third-rate failed state run by fanatical factions that hate one another. Why is this crisis scarier than the last? Because it?s government?s doing. 2011-08-19T14:40:22Z Colonialism is scarcely an adequate explanation for this devotion to the first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate writers of a foreign country to the neglect of the first-rate writers of her own. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z “We will end up being a third-rate economy.” Envy of World Economy Belied by Australia’s Ailing Industries 2011-08-11T20:33:07Z Parkes, addressing a public meeting, once said, "I would rather be a third-rate poet than a first-class politician." The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z His enthusiasm for some second-rate and third-rate Italian paintings, and his failure to understand Michael Angelo, seem to show the same tendency. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z But, singular to relate, this transaction is found to have struck some third-rate IIIrd-century Critic as not altogether correct. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z Charles X became king in 1654, and his brilliant but disastrous military ventures reduced his country to a third-rate power. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z He is becoming a third-rate dancer—one of Tom Edwards's corps; is growing frivolous and scandalous, and getting his earnest honesty knocked out of him every day. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z It makes you have exactly the same feelings whether you learn it in a mansion or in a shack, in an exclusive girls’ school or in a third-rate country schoolhouse. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z If you give people in the East End, or even in the Albert Hall, nothing but third-rate music, most of them will be content with it, and possibly may come to disrelish what is better. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z No doubt she came 256 from some third-rate, stranded theatrical company. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z What, therefore, is the sense of likening a flower, such as a Delphinium, which is really of a splendid pure-blue colour, to the duller and totally different colour of a third-rate gem? Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z When Ol' Necessity had tapped him on the shoulder he had cut his scholastic pursuits short of college, and a family friend, Dr. Nevens, had got him a fifth-rate job in a third-rate business concern. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z The posts also made it appear as if the women were admitting that their lawsuits against Charney and American Apparel were an "extortion" scheme "brewed up with some third-rate lawyer from Jersey," the lawsuit said. Ex-workers say American Apparel posted their nude photos online 2011-04-27T22:48:43Z But he bewailed his fate in having tied himself to "a third-rate Italian opera-singer, without an idea in her head beyond painting her face and squalling!" That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z "Gaddafi is a third-rate military power," he told me on Sunday. Libya: Why John McCain Thinks the West Can Still Win 2011-04-25T08:00:00Z Well, there I sat, night after night, accompanying all sorts of more or less third-rate artistes. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z The third-rate intellects, with a pretended social polish, supposed to make them acceptable at kingly courts—as if the great Republic of America required to be propped up with pretension and diplomacy. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z "This book is undeniably third-rate—dull, badly-written, incoherent; in fine, a dismal failure." Mr. Punch in Bohemia 2011-04-16T02:00:17.803Z From one and another the young gymnast was able to trace up Porler to a third-rate boarding-house on one of the side streets. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z He loathed the dreary patrol of the wet streets; he abhorred his comfortless quarters in the third-rate hotel; and the curt refusals that followed his application for a humble post were utterly disheartening. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z It makes all the others smell like a third-rate actress. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z How had she been able to bear it so far—this crushing, stifling existence in an odious little box in a horrid third-rate town? The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z What the great thinker did not predict was that the entire neighborhood would be transfixed by competitions involving second-rate singers, third-rate dancers and 400-pound dieters. The Future Is Now 2011-03-08T13:15:06.033Z There can have been no reason in the nature of things why English book-illustrations should continue over a long period of time to be third-rate. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z If so, then I 'd rather see us a third-rate power to-morrow than rule the world at the cost of such disgrace! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z So it comes about that the children—the younger classes, at least—spend as much as two-thirds of their time at second- or third-rate specimens of literature. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z Erskine was brilliant for a Scotchman, but a brilliant Scotchman is but a third-rate Irishman. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Even the men who have travelled adopt the style of third-rate Frenchmen or Germans, and go about in tall hats, with a dirty gray plaid wrapped about their shoulders. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Nevertheless it can hardly be disputed that as a matter of fact they were, with very few exceptions, third-rate, the superiority of Pynson’s to Wynkyn de Worde’s being somewhat less striking than is usually asserted. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z It is a poor thing, not unlike, in appearance, a market-house or a third-rate town hall of some mean municipality. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z I looked at his Web site, and his work is a second- or third-rate copy.” City Room: A Hirschfeld in Al's Footsteps 2011-02-09T20:55:23Z Then across the Hungarian plains to Buda-Pesth, where I remained three weeks, singing in a third-rate caf�, to make some money for my next stage. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z He frequents low gambling houses and billiard hells, sir—he haunts third-rate clubs—I know he does. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z But the effect is undeniable: New Yorkers ended up feeling like third-class residents of a third-rate burg, left to clutch their bronze medals in the race for basic city services. City Room: In a Word for Third, a Shovelful of Indignity 2010-12-30T22:09:28Z It will be fun to watch and see how this rebuilding team does, but even if they do upset Nebraska in a third-rate bowl game, not too many people around the country will care. Advice to all local sports fans? Take a playoff shot when you can get it 2010-12-27T17:15:06Z General Harrison, a man of small abilities, surely not more than a third-rate politician in Ohio, was yet familiar with the routine of political affairs. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z They call themselves "artists" but they're really just hustlers, selling third-rate trinkets and gaudy paintings that airline crews and tourists overpay grotesquely for. Tales from the road 2010-06-11T12:01:00Z He told the senators that the three men had carefully chosen the words in the letter: “slide to mediocrity” and “third-rate stature.” Astronauts Attack Obama?s NASA Plan 2010-05-13T00:35:00Z Hardcore Chiles fans will find their man on ITV Sport, where, history tells us, he will appear immediately diminished, flustered and oddly third-rate. Tim Lovejoy division would tear Match of the Day 2 apart post-Adrian Chiles 2010-04-20T16:28:00Z You see me as the image of some colossal failure—living on the road in a beaten-up car, an obscure poet, a third-rate academic. E. L. Doctorow: “Edgemont Drive.” 2010-04-19T04:00:00Z At least he doesn’t call it a third-rate distraction. NYC: In Paterson?s Attempt to Reassure the Public, a Flashback to That ?70s Show 2010-03-02T02:35:00Z Also that summer, 16-year-old Levi Presley jumped to his death from the observation deck of a third-rate Vegas hotel. American Wasteland 2010-02-26T20:59:00Z He probably shut his eyes to their moral faults, just as he felt bound in honour to extol their third-rate literary efforts. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Instead, he goes to a little third-rate political club, where, presumably, he does his own cooking and hides in a dingy room. The Window at the White Cat It would be quite impossible at the present moment to furnish a room as rooms were furnished a few years ago, without going for everything to an auction of second-hand furniture from some third-rate lodging-house. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man After the break-in, Nixon’s press secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler, waved it off as a “third-rate burglary,” words that would haunt him till his death in 2003. NYC: In Paterson?s Attempt to Reassure the Public, a Flashback to That ?70s Show 2010-03-02T02:35:00Z I overheard a very third-rate novelist to-night telling a guest that his own books were divided into three periods; the middle one being a bridge that linked the two expressions of his mind together. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life As for Monsieur the Count d’Eblis, he remained a senator, an owner of many third-rate decorations, and of the Mot d’Ordre. The Moonlit Way "Harzewitch told me that your diplomatic people were inferior to those of the third-rate German States; that, in fact, they never had any 'information.'" The Fortunes Of Glencore She brought me one day a feeble little volume of third-rate verse, with a page turned down at a passage she requested me to read. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece The door was opened by a youth who mingled an air of proprietorship with the aspect of a waiter at a third-rate café. Love's Usuries The best of them, priorato, is chiefly known in England, under the disguise of second or third-rate port; it was much used in the military hospitals of America during the Civil War. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Waltz ranks as a third-rate local player, having been easily beaten in local matches by the Miles and by Holcombe Ward at Orange. Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 It was a third-rate place, but was pretty. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel In addition to three or four acceptances of invitations there was a dirty envelope bearing on its upper left-hand corner the mark of a third-rate Jersey City hotel. The Competitive Nephew Accordingly the multitude, the second and third-rate men—that is, all except a dozen—do not attempt to speak to the House at all, but to the gallery, and, through the press, to their constituents. Here and There in London And in philosophy and general learning, where shall we find the equal of that burly old bully, Dr. Sam Johnson? and yet Johnson, with all his learning, was a third-rate philosopher. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. Hot rage rose within him, "You third-rate tramp!" The Ambassador Landing at Manila, the commercial centre and capital of the islands, we find ourselves in a city blending the characteristics of an old-fashioned Spanish town with the mild business air of a third-rate western port. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 But it was this England which Wolsey’s policy raised “from a third-rate state of little account into the highest circle of European politics.” Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition She'll never be anything but a third-rate duchess, and people that tolerate her now will snub her the moment she gives herself airs. Ancestors A Novel What I mean is that I believe in playing dark with second and third-rate work. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) "Don't call me—krrrrashew!—third-rate," she managed to gasp before the blonde sent her sprawling with a very efficient right cross to the chin. The Ambassador The next day the hoax came out: a clever but third-rate writer, M. Méry, had made April fools of the wits of Paris. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. Is it not splendid, and so plainly worded that a wayfaring man, though a fool or a third-rate lawyer, cannot mistake the meaning of it. The Daughter of a Republican I have known women without a tithe of your beauty, Leone, rise from quite third-rate society to find a place among the most exclusive and noblest people in the land. A Mad Love From the beginning our sculptors resorted to pagan emblems and pagan allegorical figures; the result is that St. Paul's resembles a Pantheon of the Lower Empire, and is a hospital of third-rate art. Old and New London Volume I He ought to know that he isn’t dealing with some third-rate power.” The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon Nature intended me for clown in a third-rate travelling circus. The Recipe for Diamonds But this boy received from the Professor only a second or third-rate rank for mathematical indications, while highly praised for linguistics, in which he was decidedly inferior. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education Hardly an original in the whole lot, and then a third-rate specimen at that. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Holloway Road at this point is at its worst—dull and ugly, with an air of third-rate respectable indigence. Coquette There were one or two others present, particularly a Mr. Ghastly, a third-rate tragic actor, with a tremendous mouth, only one eye, and a very hungry look. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. For in these latter days of April, 1898, a first-class Republic had, from purely philanthropic motives, announced its intention of licking a third-rate Monarchy into the way it should go. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts Patrick Henry would doubtless have made but a third-rate teacher of elocution, and old Homer but an indifferent lecturer on the art of poetry. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education I have not the means to go even to a third-rate place. Sir Tom But it is consoling to know that books like 'Daisy's Necklace,' in spite of 'purchased puffery,' find their level at last as linings for portmanteaus and third-rate trunks. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It After a trial in the wilderness of third-rate contemporary fiction, Voltaire stirs her intellect. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 I should be doomed to walk about the streets of some third-rate Italian town, and call myself by my grand name. Marion Fay It is mocked, derided, by a number of lawyers' clerks and nonentities from third-rate Irish towns. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule He put up at a third-rate hotel on Cordova Street and spent one glorious week sleeping, eating, strolling the busy streets and lounging in the parks and on the beaches. The Spoilers of the Valley We might have put up at some third-rate house, anyhow.” The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas You see, he used to pose as a saint, a sort of third-rate St. George, with Society for the Dragon: he was all for the poor and oppressed. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America And this riot of ugliness and diamonds and third-rate celebrities was the fashionable society to which, forsooth, the Jew could not be permitted access! Ghetto Comedies Our great danger is the introduction of a 'hidebound' and mechanical administrative system worked by third-rate Europeans and denationalised natives. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice We moderns confess that we are translating, and hardly assume for ourselves a third-rate literary place. The Life of Cicero Volume II. “But it is the third-rate house that asks you for your baggage, and makes you pay in advance if you don’t have any,” cried Sandy, triumphantly. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas “Do you know,” said I, “that I am now a performer in a third-rate travelling circus?” The Maids of Paradise Had Mr. Bremner been born a Frenchman, he would not now be the mere agent of a steam company, in a third-rate seaport town. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland "Go on with the dolly dialogue or I'll punch your head, you third-rate best seller!" The Gay Rebellion "It was a singular proof of the mutations of fortune that the direct descendant of Louis XIV. deemed himself fortunate upon being admitted into the family of a third-rate Italian potentate." Louis Philippe Makers of History Series The labourer is in a lower degree of the same class as the third-rate working farmer of the past. The Toilers of the Field The theatrical show struck him as third-rate, and as for circuses and menageries, he supposed they had been good fun when he was a child. The Sign of the Spider “And that for a person who went to a third-rate hotel—did not even give his own name, as it was said afterwards; and who certainly was a sharper or a coiner.” Major Frank All are surprised to find that a uniform fee is charged and that there is no opportunity for bargaining, as the regular physician writes prescriptions for first, second, or third-rate medicine, according to the purse. The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow It was not pride in Marion, but she had to smile at the thought of herself being helped by so very third-rate a brain as that which Allie March possessed. The Chautauqua Girls At Home It was a tawdry affair, all Cupids and cornucopias, like a third-rate wedding cake. The Picture of Dorian Gray Holland, although a third-rate Power, had to be treated with due courtesy. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Some little notoriety that he gained by recitations led him, in an evil hour, to venture an appearance en grand role, in Florence, at a third-rate theatre. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages I might have known Dad wouldn’t put up at such a third-rate tavern as this! Dorothy on a Ranch But his brightness and intelligence are of the quality, nearly always, that throws into hysteric giggles the “summer girl” on piazzas of third-rate hotels. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 He dragged it aside, and entered a long, low room which looked as if it had once been a third-rate dancing-saloon. The Picture of Dorian Gray There is a third-rate wine shop below Byron's house, and the place looks dull and miserable, and ruinous enough. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 His wish was to have had Lord Byron's house there, but it had fallen into neglect and become the refuge of a third-rate wine-shop. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Engravers, trained to mechanical imitation of this second or third-rate work; of these engravers the inferior classes are usually much overworked. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature "No housemaid, and a bedroom carpet disguised as a third-rate murder clue." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Donoil terms it third-rate, and it does not appear to have been manured even once during the fifteen years it was under Jerusalem artichoke. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock She was an ardent teetotaller, and also she doubted if Mrs. Trafford would approve of her nieces visiting at a third-rate public-house. A Patriotic Schoolgirl And maybe, even if we make it, we'll be just a third-rate group, lost in the crowd that's following the explorers... The Planet Strappers A number of second-rate or third-rate artists, producing designs as fast as they can, and realizing them up to the standard required by the public of that year. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature If he is injured, or his property is injured, there are third-rate lawyers ready to bring suit for half the proceeds—an unduly expensive arrangement for the man that has a good claim. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers From that time, the latter took his position as a third-rate man. The Last Penny and Other Stories The place wouldn't be classed higher than a third-rate cafe on Earth, but on Ceres it's considered one of the better places. A Spaceship Named McGuire I had seen a paragraph or two written by some third-rate person who objected to her piety as sentimental, and incomprehensible to the "Anglo-Saxon" world! Confessions of a Book-Lover The art is practised, in the overwhelming main, in remote and God-forsaken regions, in which the only rival entertainment is offered by one-sided political campaigns, third-rate chautauquas and Methodist revivals. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind When Mr. Macaulay speaks so often of England sinking under this or that Stuart to a third-rate power, he is anachronizing. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 He went the round of associates known and unknown, of lodgings strange and familiar, of third-rate possible public houses. The Lost Girl I had heard other singers, English singers, the best of whom are seldom better than the third-rate Italians, but Caruso ... Nights in London It was third-rate and shabby, unpretentious even in its prime, but it looked imposing to Kate, who never had seen anything better than the Prouty House. The Fighting Shepherdess All right, all right, don't try to make like a third-rate villain in a B-Movie. The Common Man The same thought which hurried him away from his old home under the shadows of night, has taken him aboard a third-rate river steamboat. The Death Shot A Story Retold Is there anything in the world more depressing than a third-rate English suburb? The Lady of the Basement Flat Of course, when they are submitted to the training of a third-rate manager, they become mere mechanical dolls, full of shrill speech and distorted posings that never once touch the audience. Nights in London There are too many cheap lawyers and third-rate politicians there. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home There are numerous second- and third-rate hotels in the city and suburbs. The Philippine Islands Mr. Reynolds has much that is to the point to say about the good old British legends of darkest Russia now chiefly kept going by third-rate novelists and unscrupulous journalists. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Some of what he said was true, and some of the third-rate people whom he assailed deserved the assault. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Very spirit of the Salvation Army, when some third-rate scientist comes out with an explanation of the vermiform appendix or the os coccygis that would have been acceptable to Moses. The Book of the Damned "The powerfullest magnet will pick out, in the powdered dust of the ironstone, fine particles of metal that a second or third-rate magnet would fail to draw to itself." Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. There we lay quietly all night, for a submarine at night is nothing more than a very third-rate surface torpedo-boat. Danger! and Other Stories He planted himself before them and harangued them like any third-rate criminal lawyer. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book To you or me he would have looked like what he was, a second or third-rate tragedian. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) There to this day he holds a third-rate court. peacocks. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character There are airs by the great composers we so love that we enjoy them even when woven into the compositions of some third-rate master. The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition And so it has come to this, that I, Athol Meldrum, of gentle birth and Highland breeding, must sue in vain to understudy a scullion in a third-rate hash joint. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance "A rather sordid murder, at a third-rate hotel; there's a mystery, of course." The Lion's Mouse I'd rather be running a little, third-rate detective agency as I am, making just enough to get along, and have a lot of friends. The Brand of Silence A Detective Story It is grown exclusively as an agricultural or field turnip; but is very liable to rot; soon becomes spongy; and can only be classed as third-rate, even for feeding stock. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. The houses and all the streets in Liverpool were just as we see in third-rate country towns, having bowed shop-windows, or square ones, projecting from the side of the house. Recollections of Old Liverpool He took second or third-rate parts on account of his diffidence. Pushing to the Front Only as the car slowed down in front of the third-rate hotel did Clo touch the hasp of the gray suede bag. The Lion's Mouse Do you not consider that it is rather prejudicial to art that there should be a Gallery notoriously containing no first-rate works of art, but second-rate or third-rate works?—No; On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature Eventually the bereaved family migrated to Paris, whence Pantalzar had once heard from the father, who had found employment as stall manager of a third-rate theatre in one of the fauxbourg. Roger Ingleton, Minor As a boy, I have seen it ranked only as a third-rate seaport. Recollections of Old Liverpool Am I a cheap adventurer in a third-rate melodrama? Shorty McCabe on the Job The pair in their plain wraps, were not conspicuous figures even in a third-rate hotel like the Westmorland, and the clerk whom they approached was not moved to curiosity. The Lion's Mouse Some thirty years ago, when Roberts's father was champion, a break of over 200 was a rare event, whereas now it is an every day occurrence with third-rate players. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly When she sees me though, she puts a stop order on all that third-rate stuff and tells the cook to go the limit. Torchy and Vee So I hunted up a little third-rate summer hotel a mile or so off, where the guests were few and the food wretched, and camped down with my mangled script and my typewriter. Torchy, Private Sec. He had followed the stage all his life, but he was of the sort that tear passion to tatters and he had never risen above third-rate parts. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble But no one wants third-rate poetry; editors fight shy of it, and volumes of it are unsaleable. Joyous Gard Two positions were open to her at the same time, one as a book-keeper, the other as writer for a certain department in a third-rate magazine. Girls and Women He was the main wheeze in some third-rate life insurance concern, I believe, and fairly well off, and he owned a classy place over near the Country Club. Torchy and Vee "By my halidom!" and all the rest of the sweepings and tailings of Scott and the third-rate romanticists. The Spinner's Book of Fiction A little dabbling in real estate, some third-rate work for the magazines, a passing notoriety as a guesser of crime riddles—it was not a record that promised a bright future. The Winning Clue He sought for the successors of the apostles, for the stewards of the mysteries of Sinai and of Calvary, among third-rate hunters after syllables. Tancred Or, The New Crusade His mind is disturbed by the inconsistencies of various excellences, and by his own predilection for false beauties in second or third-rate works. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) The gentleman who impersonated the patriarch Lot had a distinctly modern air, and resembled a third-rate Anarchist in depressing circumstances. The Hippodrome The street itself is but of third-rate character, and the houses are but of a common stamp. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Verena was a perfect little adventuress, and quite third-rate into the bargain; but, of course, she was a pretty girl enough, if one cared for hair of the colour of cochineal. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) They tell us what it is, a third-rate city in a stony wilderness. Tancred Or, The New Crusade The difference between blank verse in the hands of its few masters and in the hands of a third-rate imitator strikes the ear in every line. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Now a profusion of signs announce that hospitality is to be had at a stated price, and the old mansions are put to the viler uses of third-rate boarding houses and restaurants. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City And yet, if he be judged by his actions as a pirate, he must be placed amongst the second- or even third-rate masters of that craft. The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers This Siberian world, where vast wildernesses still remain to be explored, has a foreign trade surpassed by that of many a third-rate European seaport, such as Dover or Boulogne. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Beresford, the British commander, had the dogged fighting courage, half Dutch and half English, of his name and blood; but as a commander he was scarcely third-rate. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes The honor of the office would be more than sufficient pay for the third-rate men that are accidentally chosen to a far higher rank than nature gave them. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 She used to be a kitchen maid; now she's a third-rate actress. Jane Allen: Right Guard The good soil would soon be taken up, and in the days of a primitive mode of culture third-rate land would be valueless. The Customs of Old England Finally we succeeded in getting a room for the two women in a little, third-rate hotel, and Jack and I slept on the floor of a sitting-room in the little Hôtel Central. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium It is the misfortune of humanity that its history is chiefly written by third-rate men. Damn! A Book of Calumny We do not care to publish third-rate books. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke None of the establishments near the quays can be classed as even third-rate, and it is in the neighbourhood of the Bourse that the best eating-houses will be found. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe At last they came to a third-rate house, when a rough, common-looking woman opened the door and shutter. Choice Readings for the Home Circle The north side is occupied by a row of seventeenth-century houses turned into shops and third-rate cafés. Bruges and West Flanders The third-rate man, though he may wear the false whiskers of a first-rate man, may always be detected by his inability to keep his head in the face of an appeal to his emotions. Damn! A Book of Calumny Yet, deeply dejected as it leaves me to know that very clever people despise the "genteel third-rate mind" of Wordsworth, I am not quite certain that I yield to Mr. Balfour's brilliant and paralysing logic. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters They associated with third-rate people, and vied with each other in giving parties and balls to which all the young swells in town were invited. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family Our ponderous biographies of third-rate people tend to become mere bags of letters and waste-paper baskets. Studies in Early Victorian Literature He pointed through the port at an insignificant coaling dock such as third-rate barges use. The Canadian Commonwealth When Swinburne’s ‘Atalanta in Calydon’ appeared, another third-rate writer, James Russell Lowell, assured the world that its author was no poet, because there was no thought in the verse. Masques & Phases Beyond that was howling desert, not even picturesquely sandy, but a dried up marsh overblown with dust, like the foreshore of a third-rate port. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years A few second and third-rate people had made a formal call, or left a card. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family One day saw him an obscure, third-rate composer, the next one of the brilliant names in art. Great Italian and French Composers These streets and shops, brilliant though they seem by contrast with the rest of the city, would, after all, only be third-rate ones in any other European capital, and will not detain you long. Rome in 1860 And she will drift into a third-rate Chicago boarding-house, than which if there is anything meaner—let us pray! A String of Amber Beads In later conversations he has been more lucid; but he is a third-rate man, and quite unequal to the burthen that the favour of the King has placed upon him. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II It is now, however, only as a third-rate church in its decoration. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business The significance of this act is enhanced by the known importance which he himself attached to the presence or absence of even a third-rate ship-of-the-line. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain With either Mr. Shepard or Mr. Low elected, Tammany would dwindle—as one now beholds it—to be a third-rate influence. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 The best players in Sydney and Melbourne would not be considered as more than third-rate at home. Town Life in Australia These parts would scarcely be accepted now by third-rate actors. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 "In Vermont he would be called only a third-rate marksman." The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia The Breda, in which I was now serving, led the van, and the squadron consisted, besides another third-rate, of six fourth-rates, a fireship, a bomb vessel, a tender and a sloop. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow He had sold half a dozen short tales to third-rate magazines; but this letter had been issued from a distinguished editorial room, of international reputation. The Ragged Edge Turning, however, to that part of the coal-field regarded as precarious, and consisting of first, second, and third-rate household coal, we have for future use 300 square miles. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects She may have been crazy for a stage career, but she's probably seen that the chorus of a third-rate musical comedy won't take her anywhere. The Real Adventure Perhaps it may be described as a third-rate oratorio, whose interest is largely historic and literary. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Less than three months afterwards I was appointed to command the Pegasus, a third-rate of forty-eight guns, and ordered to the Mediterranean with Admiral Sir Cloudesly Shovel. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow The daughter of a strolling third-rate actor, who goes barnstorming about the country, and she has been on the stage, too. Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics As thus: Mr. Balfour had spoken of the people who denounced Dublin Castle as "third-rate politicians." Sketches in the House (1893) St. Patrick's Hall is a fine apartment, but certainly does not deserve the name of magnificent, and is a very poor affair compared with the reception-saloons of third-rate continental princes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Page follows page, and we find nothing but echoes without music, reflections without beauty, second-rate magazine verses and third-rate verses for Colonial newspapers. Reviews He wanted Americans to encourage their own men in Music, Art and Literature and not to respect a third-rate artist simply because he came from a foreign country having traditions of culture. Edward MacDowell He was of the stuff out of which prophets and devotees, martyrs, reformers, and third-rate poets are made. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman There is a young man, a third-rate coxcomb, whose first care is always to flourish a white handkerchief and brush the seat of a tight pair of black silk pantaloons which shine as if varnished. Twice Told Tales I do riot at all want to turn out a generation of third-rate writing amateurs. Cambridge Essays on Education By position you're a little suburban nobody, who was pushed out to West Africa to become a third-rate little trader. The Dark House A great resort of the small wits, third-rate actors, and newspaper critics of the theatres. Tales of a Traveller They have been long expecting your worship's offspring, and have gained great fame in repeating his third-rate stories at second hand; so in consequence of these messengers I am received with branches of palm. The Bed-Book of Happiness His father was a third-rate poet who, suspecting his own gift, doubted the talent of his son, though this talent was both precocious and prodigious. Promenades of an Impressionist Here's what happened: Serge was the son of a violinist who scratched away for a meager living in a third-rate theatre orchestra. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Or are the pair affected fools, Who catch by rote the silly rules Of third-rate fashionable schools? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891 I am not counting those of second or third-rate importance. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Most of these second- and third-rate universities have passed away or have been merged in others. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 This earth was but a small planet, and its sun a third-rate sun. Evelyn Innes This result is more easily explained than the inroads made on our more ordinary foreign traffic, in sailing vessels, by the mercantile marine of second- and third-rate powers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 The main-mast of one of their largest junks is equal in size to that of our third-rate men of war, but all of one piece, not built. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. When I met her, a dozen years ago, she was touring the provinces, playing small parts in third-rate companies. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories I question if the best of them would pass for more than fourth-rate in London, or for more than third-rate here; though the silk-mercers at home might possibly be an exception to the rule. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland He is a small man, strongly resembling the Emperor of China in a third-rate provincial pantomime. The First Hundred Thousand That thing I have told you is the most serious and horrible experience of my life, and yet you treat it as if I were acting a part in a melodrama in a third-rate theatre! What Dreams May Come Mr. Prohack felt the epigram to be third-rate, but he carried it off lightly. Mr. Prohack I believe it to be the sole difficulty which is peculiar to the drama, and that it is not acute is proved by the ease with which third-rate dramatists have generally vanquished it. The Author's Craft But in the first search he found nothing else, nothing that might not be found in any third-rate newspaper establishment. Starr, of the Desert The tale first appears in a third-rate life of Pope by Owen Ruffhead, who had it from Warburton, who had it from Pope himself. Books and Characters French and English No, no!—too many of the Englishmen who went to Paris lost their individuality and became third-rate Frenchmen. Fenwick's Career He became in time a third-rate actor, and the duties of clerk or scribe presently made him familiar with the executive and legislative affairs of Athens. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Shakespeare must be kept up, or we shall become a third-rate nation! The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections The trepang obtained here is only considered as third-rate; that from the Tenimber group second, and from Australia first-rate. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. One single poet, a third-rate one, Clement Marot, attained lustre under Francis I. Rabelais is the only great prose writer who belongs strictly to that period. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 But even in a music-hall in Paris, or in a third-rate cabaret in a provincial town, the song may be heard with all its magic. The Soul of the War At the beginning of the present century it was but a third-rate city, and was rarely visited by foreigners. Views a-foot Since the beginning of the present century it is safe to say that England has produced no statesmen whom her own historians will pronounce to be more than second- or third-rate men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 There is no bank, even of third-rate importance, in this city, whose receiving teller or paying teller may not do exactly as I have done. Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 It was this third-rate town that became the birthplace of a new school of German opera, for years the hub of the musical universe. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 The actors got out of the place one by one—they didnt like playing with her—and were replaced by a third-rate lot. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage I like his companion less—a third-rate fellow at the outside! The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Nowadays, a young man could hardly enter even a third-rate college without a better preparation than that. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians. Intentions An underpaid clerk in a small Provincial Bank in a third-rate English town. A Woman of No Importance She carries laudanum with her—I saw the bottle in her room—such a miserable little room—at a third-rate house, the Elephant, up in the roof at the top of all. Vanity Fair The third-rate great man is superior to other men, like Whistler. Heretics They entered a third-rate hotel near the water front, engaged a room for a week, paid in advance, were in their room for half an hour and emerged clothed in civilian raiment. The Mucker Supposing you're never anything more than third-rate, do you think it will have been worth while to give up everything? Moon and Sixpence The young lady, however, is also very intimate with some third-rate Italians, with whom she rackets about in a way that makes much talk. Daisy Miller He trampled over all the young bucks of his father's circle, and was the hero among those third-rate men. Vanity Fair Fancy feeling one's self ground in the mill of a third-rate talent! Roderick Hudson He dragged it aside and entered a long low room which looked as if it had once been a third-rate dancing-saloon. The Picture of Dorian Gray She speedily returned, and they went on to the railway, and made the half-hour's journey to Aldbrickham, where they entered a third-rate inn near the station in time for a late supper. Jude the Obscure He is a music master, or a penny-a-liner, or a third-rate artist. Daisy Miller Her younger brother was on the stage; he had married an actress, and was playing comedy parts in third-rate German theatres. Bertha Garlan The rudder of one third-rate was broken; and that was all the hurt that the storm had done. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 He would answer no questions as we went to the third-rate tea-rooms, but he was certainly excited. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles With the money Stryker was to give him he would be able to get back to London and his third-rate hostelry, but not with enough over to pay that one week's room-rent, or ... The Black Bag Although one of them has traveled with third-rate strolling companies and the other has waited in a hotel? Vane of the Timberlands This was a third-rate men's hotel, a decent enough place where the transient male population from the interior met the restless influx from the coast. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Helena sat mute, while the car swung through the yellow, stale lights of a third-rate street of shops. The Trespasser Thorn's Hotel is third-rate, but quite good enough for a man who does not want to burn money. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Mentally he calculated the direction of her gaze, then, moved away and followed it with his own eyes; and found himself staring at the façade of a third-rate hotel. The Black Bag There were one or two hydraulic mines and a pulp mill in the vicinity, and, though the place was by no means populous, a company of third-rate entertainers had arrived there a few days earlier. Vane of the Timberlands But she has an unmistakable air of Bohemianism; looks like a third-rate actress, or dancer, in short; or perhaps an artist's model. The Lovels of Arden A lot of third-rate fellows have tried that tack with me, as if they'd flatter me into giving them a job. The Foolish Lovers Art, then, is but a shadow of a shadow, a thing of third-rate degree. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic There is a young man, a third-rate coxcomb, whose first care is always to flourish a white handkerchief, and brush the seat of a tight pair of black silk pantaloons, which shine as if varnished. Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales") You were a clerk; I a member of the Assembly: you, a third-rate actor, I a spectator of the play. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 He had been heard to declare that he had rather wear feathers and war-paint, like a red Indian, than a coat made by a third-rate tailor. The Golden Calf And ours," he muttered, "was a third-rate gunboat! The Mischief Maker I found Canary bearing the same relation to madeira as marsala bears to sherry: the best specimens almost equalled the second- or third-rate madeiras. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I What can one say of the ordinary, common, second-rate, third-rate toilers—whatsoever they may be—statesmen, men of science, artists—above all, artists? The Jew and Other Stories You, with your third-rate navy and your tenth-rate army, told us what we might do! The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory Having to associate with such third-rate commercial fellows and witness their ebullitions of mutual admiration makes a man of education, like myself, utterly sick. The Far Horizon But as time went on I grew to understand that my abilities were third-rate. The Sisters-In-Law The third-rate men of those days possessed an infinity of knowledge, and were intimately versed not only in the history, but even in the heraldry, of the countries in which they were resident. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Then I had to go back, not only to second-rate, but to third-rate, having lost a lot in five years. The Mountebank Another way is to buy the sub-editorship of a third-rate paper, by subscribing towards its capital. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide I was the first to buy—they call it a Savoldo, but I think no third-rate man could be capable of so much—such reaching out after infinity. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Then the consciousness came to me that without long and profound study I could never achieve more than a third-rate success in my profession. An Ambitious Man In the modern theatre, as the play-going critic knows, the explanatory personage is usually of quite a third-rate order. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family But here was something second-rate, third-rate, half-hearted--though I, who knew, saw that the man was sweating blood to exceed his limitations. The Mountebank |
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