Word: cast-off
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...tearing her butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous kindness as if it were not contempt. A cast-off inamorata soliloquizes in a taxi. Friends of the family are puzzled when a Perfect Couple, long married, split up for the valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails, she his audible yawns. A wife from whose life the glory has departed clings to her faith...
...nation's second city- hustling, bustling, brawling, sprawling Chicago-should by rights rank next to the Mayor of New York in national prestige and power. But he does not. He governs the most thoroughly American city in the land, a polyglot metropolis that began as a cast-off of the East as the East began as a cast-off of Europe. Chicago's chuffing, puffing yards constitute the railroad centre of the U.S. It holds the U.S. grain trade in its pits. Its stockyards are unmatched. In its grimy lap are a multitude of noisy industries (steel, cement...
...pray his usual prayer that "Mme Lepic will forget about him for a little while." He begins to brood on suicide. Even next morning, when his father has him come to a party celebrating his election as village mayor, the desolate child finds himself suddenly abandoned, ridiculed for his cast-off clothing on what promised to be a day of days. In a barn he finds a rope. His father barely prevents a tragedy...
...Wilson and Jose's other forward-looking friends could not understand it; but at last Jose was happy. He flattered Maria by marrying her. Meanwhile Father-in-law Marco had been rising in the politico world; now he began to use his new-found power to plague his cast-off family and especially Jose. Jose found himself evicted from his farm; he moved elsewhere; the same thing threatened again. But then Senor Wilson stepped in and effectually removed the threat. In the banditry and guerrilla fighting that the late lean years brought Cuba, fat politico Marco went...
Jean de la Lune (George Marret) is currently the best cinema of French make on view in the U. S. It is the story of a young florist so unsophisticated that U. S. audiences will find it hard to believe him a Parisian. When he marries Marceline, the cast-off mistress of a friend, he takes her sulky neglect as a matter of course, never guesses at her liaisons, cheerfully supports her wastrel brother Clo-Clo. After four years of this. Marceline entrains for Nice with the latest of her lovers. Clo-Clo stays to break the news...