Word: derelicts
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Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop they can be proud of, get drunk at a wedding in town, reassemble the pitiful remnants of their year's work after a cloudburst, and come into the fall of the year in a resolute, proud, sad knowledge of their lives which is granted to few except farmers...
...cadaver scarcity was growing acute even before the war. For dissection, modern medical schools have to depend almost entirely on derelict, unclaimed bodies. Wartime prosperity, a long-range decline in pauperism and the wider spread of Social Security payments (which include funeral expenses) have cut this source of supply. Said Dr. Curl last week: "Another four years and we may not have any cadavers for medical teaching...
...Naturally, the Roman Catholic Church seeks to dominate the religious life of the country, of the world for that matter. The clergy and laity of the Catholic Church would be derelict in their duty if they did not work and pray toward that end just as, I daresay, Dr. Vale would be failing in his duty if he did not seek the same leadership for the church that he represents...
...Have and Have Not is neither an action picture nor a Bogart picture. Its story is, in fact, just a loosely painted background for a kind of romance which the movies have all but forgotten about-the kind in which the derelict sweethearts are superficially aloof but essentially hot as blazes, and seem to do even their kissing out of the corners of their mouths. This particular romance is decorated by some sinister yet friendly bits of low-life café atmosphere. Hoagy Carmichael's performance as a cokey-looking ivory-prowler is especially useful for some spidery Caribbean...
...Raving Dervish." Hitler's closest companions found "the homeless derelict from the Viennese melting pot" a normally absurd figure. Many were repelled by "this face that looked like an advertisement for a shaving lotion; this emptiness with the avid, frightened eyes; this sometimes slinking, sometimes hopping, never naturally moving form with its narrow shoulders [and] ridiculously correct suit"; this man who exhorted them "with all the semi-education of his age," using "miserable German . . . defective logic . . . tasteless humor . . . false pathos," and subjected them to "alternate whining and brutality...