Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Lederer as the gigolo who falls in love with her and John Barrymore as the millionaire who finances her, it looks as bright and fetching as an artful nosegay. Good sequence: Barrymore and Colbert eyeing each other at a musicale which she has crashed by palming off a pawn ticket as a card of admission...
Another weakness of the book is the author's propensity to minimize or to ignore completely the possibility of friction arising in other European danger spots. Tunis comes in but for passing mention. General Franco is assumed to be already a pawn in the hands of Fascist dictators...
...With a population of only 34,000,000, with a coastline of only 75 miles, with undeveloped industries and with its economy predominantly agricultural, it can scarcely convince Europe that it is a great power. At the same time it is not so weak as to become a natural pawn for one of Europe's ideological combinations...
Some years ago, Dorothy Canfield, in her nonliterary self (Mrs. John Redwood Fisher), served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn even their academic freedom for a little ready cash. This, at any rate, is the premise of Seasoned Timber...
...hardly likely that the cardinals will elect a pawn of Mussolini, "because today the college of cardinals is more representative of the whole church in the various countries of the world, and because the enthusiasm of many Italian cardinals for Mussolini has dampened...