Word: castaway
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...nuts," and went away. Only once again did he see "Papa" in years of wandering about the U. S., hopping freights, working as an itinerant laborer. He gave "Papa" scarcely another thought until about a week after Sister Ella's death, which he chanced to read about in a castaway tabloid paper. When lawyers for the estate insisted upon knowing why he delayed so long before presenting his claim, Morris blurted: "I always entertained the idea that I was illegitimate...
...funny situation funny. Laughter comes far more easily from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes it ridiculous or by the presence of a character who does not belong in it. As a taxidriver, a ship's steward, and finally a castaway on a desert island, Oakie through the rambling plot has nothing to satirize; the only way that he can satirize the tedious job of being funny all the time is by being inadvertently dull for long stretches. People who find the picture outmoded in its song and chorus numbers...
...woman living alone, like the hero and heroine of some improbable fiction, on a desert island 500 miles from the South American mainland. The explorers asked some questions, left a year's supplies. They learned that the sun-browned, crudely clad gentleman was no castaway, but a German scientist, Dr. Karl Ritter. He once lived in Berlin, has a wife in Baden. Last July, tired of civilization, anxious to study the effect of uncooked foods on the digestion and sunlight on the skin, he projected the Galapagos venture. First he visited a dentist who extracted all his fallible human...
...high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year a U. S. horse has been installed as favorite. Billy Barton, by Huon and out of Mary le Bas, owned by Howard Bruce of Baltimore, will carry many thousands of pounds...
...July 6: Castaway-rescuer Lundborg rescued from Nobile camp by Swedish Lieut. Shyberg...