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...little children, parentless, dirty, tear-begrimed and hungry were picked up by a warm-hearted gendarme during the earliest bombardment in Paris. The little boy said he was called "Rintintin" and his sister who was afraid of the big noise was "Nanette...
...freedom of Moscow's homeless children, thousands of them, parentless, homeless. . . . highwaymen, murderers and dope fiends almost before their bones have hardened. They have gnome-like, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, long men's coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make one after another a leap at some shopman's counter, grabbing anything, running like the wind...