Word: derelicts
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...interest in ideas about human problems without having first an even larger interest in the human beings who are faced with them, Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict, portrayed on the stage by Alice Cooper Cliffe, or Bill Walker (Percy Waram), he must have eaten humble cake in the mission houses of his trade. And before any writer can despise any human being as thoroughly as Author Shaw despises the son of his mouthpiece millionaire, it is necessary...
...derelict sea-captain, cadging drinks on the Baltimore wharves (according to the present editor), accosted one Brantz Mayer, swapped yarns for liquor. The captain, the accosted, the yarns, are all of a piece with garrulous South African traders who peddle reminiscence with their kitchenware. In pleasant 19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion...
...Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor Thompson, "the worst political derelict pestering Chicago." Nor does it matter that Senator Deneen was the good friend of Mr. Smith when the latter was trying to get into the Senate. Now Senator Deneen is supporting one Otis F. Glenn, the opponent of Mr. Smith for the vacant Senate seat. To oust Governor Small, Senator Deneen...
...quoted con and hopes are advanced pro on the barnacle-bottomed question of whether or not the Government should stay in the shipping business and continue in that (so far) ineffective way to try to build up the U. S. merchant marine. Last week the question remained as derelict as ever, but the U. S. Shipping Board took a definite step which apparently vexed no one very much. It sold the U. S. entirely out of the shipping business on the Pacific Coast...
Presbyterian rule has held that only desertion and adultery are legitimate grounds for divorce. In this Presbyterians have been more liberal than most Christian denominations. Most admit only adultery as a divorce cause. A Presbyterian minister might properly marry a divorce only if the person were the innocent derelict of desertion or the innocent cheat of adultery. And, because the minister has had free discretion to judge marital innocence, amiable pew-holders occasionally have tried to strain his goodwill...