Word: cast-off
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...making her eyes tragic and a way of laughing and crying by turns, she would have a great deal to give to a fragile re mane like "Sunrise." But instead, the vastly commonplace Miss Gaynor usurps these roles, and Miss Twelvetrees is forced to play gangsters" molls and cast-off courtesans. It is not her fault that she has had to grimace in the grand manner or shrill thinly in melodrama. In "Panama Flo", she deals more skillfully than before with such material yet it is evident that here face was made for gauze and soft lighting, and her voice...
...then Mr. Ingram falls in love with his ward Trixie, a chronic flirt. Thereafter neither can trust the other. Even on their honeymoon they are tagged after by cast-off friends. And as the final curtain falls, although Mr. & Mrs. Ingram have settled their entanglemen's of the moment, one foresees for them a merry married life and a short...
...number of men have been chosen by the Phillips Brooks House Association to collect the contributions for their annual fall drive, which started yesterday. This drive, in which cast-off clothing is particularly requested, is being stressed this year as a possible means of helping the unemployed. The men will go to all the dormitories, collecting contributions they may find within them...
...Madrid last week the Old Clothes Duke, Don Alfonso de Silva y Campbell. 15th of his line, died, was succeeded by his son Alfonso. Since the 15th Century the family of Hijar have been collecting cast-off Royal garments, esteem this a great and (by association of ideas) holy privilege, guard as their most precious treasure hundreds of old Royal Vigil uniforms...
...Poetry was once married to music, and she broke off. Then she was, we thought, securely wedded to verse, but she has got away at last. Shall she be married again, as some believe, this time to the cast-off partner of religion, philosophy...