Word: outcaste
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...ensuing breathless events Allen loses everything-his friend, his wife, his military honor. He suffers the martyrdom without which Catherine predicted nothing valuable for Ireland or for himself could be won. Outcast, Catherine accompanies him. Like her carrier pigeons, that fly always in one direction through the sky's abyss, the two are oriented by a single ideal, head instinctively toward its consummation, as the pigeons head towards home...
...Alfonso XIII, outcast King of Spain, returned to France after a tour of the Holy Land without passport or papers of identity. Only in Germany was he halted. Don Alfonso crushed the Zollinspektor by shouting: "Look here, my man, I am an admiral in your navy, a general in your cavalry, a colonel in the Uhlans and I demand your salute...
...lnto his Cabinet in 1921 Harding brought what he called "best minds." After a decade Secretary of State Hughes is Chief Justice of the U. S.; Secretary Mellon still sits in the Treasury; Attorney General Daugherty is a political outcast; Postmaster General Hays is cinema tsar; Secretary of the Interior Fall is on the penitentiary doorstep; Secretary of Commerce Hoover is in the White House; Secretary of Labor Davis is in the Senate from Pennsylvania. Dead are Secretaries of War Weeks, of the Navy Denby, of Agriculture Wallace...
...will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play was a stage hit 19 years ago. Lionel Barrymore capably directed a fine cast which includes Lewis Stone and is distinguished...
...famed Oliver Morosco, she collects jewels, is said to own the biggest existing cabuchon ruby, reads with a magnifying glass the complete works of Poet Alfred Noyes in an edition one inch square, has a prize lily garden, and plays golf badly. Famed for her roles in Outcast, Prisoners, Six Days, she sailed for Europe last week for her "first vacation in five years...