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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wild Children | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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