Word: outcaste
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...Navy air arm although no longer an outcast is still a stepchild to the Navy's battleship admirals. Rear Admiral John H. Towers, a dyed-in-the-wool aviator who has been flying since 1911, did get promoted to Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Air. But plans to make him a Vice Admiral, and to promote deserving airmen on his coattails, have been lost in the shuffle. "Jack" Towers has been excluded from powwows of the General Board, and has applied for active sea duty...
...choices were open to the makers of A Woman's Face. They could turn out a study of a woman outcast and her rejuvenation; or they could emphasize the play's melodrama, suspense and horror. Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) chose the latter. With a tight, smooth script they have spun a slick thriller whose box-office ending is but a slight drawback to a suspenseful 106 minutes...
When Doe tries to warn his convention, the publisher exposes him as a fake and his private storm troopers turn the crowd against Doe. Outcast, Doe decides that he can only convince his following of his sincerity by really jumping off the City Hall tower on Christmas...
Rumors of mass replacement of American workers by refugees have invariably been proved false upon investigation. More than that, a survey of over three hundred firms established by outcast business men found them employing 75% native-born workers, frequently reopening abandoned factories, and bringing to this country formerly exclusively European patents and processes. Most often when refugees do add to our unemployed, it is entirely due to American inertia or unfounded prejudice. Thus nearly three thousand medical men have come here since 1934 and more than half are already successfully resettled after passing State medical board examinations in English...
...deserve this disgrace? Burn my books! I would consider it an undying mark of shame if my books were not burned by you." Burned they were, and homeless Novelist Graf has wandered ever since-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, the U. S. In The Life of My Mother, "a biographical novel," Outcast Oskar Maria Graf seeks a way back to his spiritual verities...