Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better Lookers. As Marie, an orphan who is adopted as a mascot by the regiment, Soprano Pons beats the drum, falls in love with a peasant who turns soldier so that he may marry her. A marquise claims Marie as her niece, carries her off to a chateau to make a lady of her-but not for long. The peasant, now an officer, turns up to claim Marie, with drum rolls and general rejoicing...
...mustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his head and said, The Arab is dead. He died an orphan in an alien world, six thousand miles from home. He wanted to go home and die. He wanted to see his sons again. He wanted to talk to them again. He wanted to smell them. He wanted to hear them breathing. He had no money. He used to think about...
Pittsburgh's Variety Club, orphan-succoring organization (started twelve years ago after an actor found a baby at a local theatre), feted a ten-month-old foundling, named him Joe E. Brown. On hand for the festivities, shovel-mouthed Comic Brown bounced the baby on his knee, talked of adopting him (though he had five...
...Connecticut audiences Poet-Professor Odell Shepard, Pulitzer-Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott) who quit lecturing at Trinity College to campaign for Lieutenant Governor, sang a political ditty called Old Connecticut Is Coming, F. D. R. He called it an orphan, but it looked like his child. Cracked his Republican opponent, tall, suave Dr. James Lukens McConaughy, who is not only Lieutenant Governor but president of Wesleyan too: "If the State wants a Lieutenant Governor who can serve as its poet laureate, count...
...With all the passenger and mail business they can conveniently handle, U. S. air lines have paid little attention to express, are glad to pay Railway Express Agency a commission of 12½% and costs amounting to about 20% additional on all the express it brings in. An airline orphan, express is bound by contract never to fly at less than twice the railroad rate. Actually air express rates are five to seven times as high as railroad rates. Result: there is not a single all-express plane flying on U. S. airways today-so no air line can carry...