Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grow. Where cotton has been planted, the farmers are faced with a new menace - a pestilence of worms which cut through the young plants as though with sharp saws. Said C. P. Seab, agricultural demonstration agent for the parish of Concordia: "In all America there are no people more penniless, un happy and with so little hope as these. "And Sheriff E. P. Campbell of Concordia said that 90% of the people in Texas and Catahoula had "not a cent in the world." Mayor Hall Allen of Tallulah said: "I don't know what" is in store...
...Prince of Head Waiters (Lewis Stone). The Parisian hero is torn from his newlywed U. S. bride, because her father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place. While on duty, he has occasion to save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand...
Died. Rosa Sucher, 78, famed oldtime Wagnerian opera soprano; almost penniless, at Eschweiler, Germany. In her years of glory she was appointed court singer and decorated by Emperor William I. The early failure of her voice was reputedly caused by the midnight suppers which she arranged for her conductor-husband's delectation. Once, at Beyrouth she ate a full bottle of anchovies between the first and second acts of Die Walkure...
...Hays. Business may get bad for passport artists and proprietors of half-moon parlors. Photomaton Inc. looks for lively trade from police departments, commutation ticket offices, license bureaus-wherever quick recording and identification are needed. Meantime Inventor Jo-sepho, who is a Socialist only three years removed from penniless Russian immigrancy, will act consistently. Half of his million he will devote to general charity; half "to helping my brother inventors to similar success...
...Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...