Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After honeymooning on borrowed money, the bride discovers that her husband is penniless; the groom, that his wife's income will not support them. When he turns embezzler, his loving wife begins to see the tragedy they are headed for. But she cannot break away. She suspects that her husband has murdered his best friend (Nigel Bruce) and intends to murder her for her life insurance...
...NAVY COLT-Frank Gruber-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The penniless book agents, Cragg & Fletcher, are linked to the shooting of a Chicago wastrel who owns a museum-piece Colt once toted by Jesse James. Solution of the gun's secret and two murders finds these extraordinary amateur hawkshaws at their best...
Around the time of the Civil War, Nevada's Virginia City, site of the fabulous Comstock Lode, was the wildest, hell-roaringest mining town in the world. Men who arrived haggard, filthy and penniless soon made thousands of dollars a week from the blue-black silver ore, gorged themselves on oysters, caviar, champagne. The streets thundered all night with brawling, boozing, wenching. Sam Brown, one of the first "bad men" of the old West, literally carved a man to pieces with his bowie knife, went to sleep on a table while his awed companions collected and removed the fragments...
...tons of wheat (market value: $3,700,000-$5,500,000). The affair was being financed by a "public utility having financial connections with Spain." Best guess was that that meant Sofina, international utility trust which owns properties both in Spain and in Argentina. Perhaps penniless Franco was holding Sofina's Spanish properties for ransom money to be delivered in Buenos Aires...
...century ago Bellevue was a filthy, hellish pesthouse for typhus and yellow fever; 50 years ago a dumping ground for drunken bums, bastards, lunatics, penniless incurables. Fear of the place is still widespread among New York City's ignorant poor, especially the foreign-born...