Word: junkshop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman, but he tells the little boy he is an antiquarian. That makes the audience cry. The little boy's mother is dead?she committed suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French?"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best shot: young David Durand beginning to cheer up when Chevalier puts...
...that four bronze statuettes had disappeared entirely. Detectives investigated, apprehended a ragpicker and three lads of 15, his Janissaries. This individual, coveting the statuettes, had sent the scalawags to cadge them, instructed them to perpetrate malicious mischief upon The First Man that it might the pore fittingly become his junkshop. A curio dealer named Vialatte had received the stolen properties. All were jailed...