Word: penniless
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...Wichita, Kan., Don Preston appeared in court, arraigned for the second time on a liquor charge. Penniless, he had hitchhiked over 1,100 miles from San Diesro, Calif...
...Barnes was spoiled but a darling, and would get all the Barnes money some day, when her grandfather died. Meantime she had set her heart on marrying handsome but penniless Tony de la Ferronays, French professor at her nearby college. When Julie Borel, supposed daughter of a former governess, came to live with the Barnses, she and Tony took fire at sight. But neither had any money, so Tony married Pen. Julie might have had Nick Barnes, a rising surgeon and solid citizen, but honeymooning Tony still kept her fancy. Finally she took a chance on Nick, but stipulated...
...Douglasses, F.F.V.'s at home, had not been home for a long time because Paris was the kind of town their irresponsible, penniless but aristocratic mode of life exactly suited. Mrs. Douglass was dead and not much missed. Dreamy Hugh and absent-minded but hard-hearted Catherine adored their charming failure of a father, who managed to enjoy life by running up bills, keeping a mistress, being popular with a large acquaintance. Mr. Douglass was fond of his children too, but failed to keep a weather eye on them. He never knew Catherine had become the mistress of egotistic young...
...deep tones of her voice. She brings to life the conventional scenes, so stiffly and even stodgily written. Robert Montgomery and Marjorie Rambeau seem indifferent in their roles, their competence too heavily overshadowed by Garbo's brilliance. Best sequence: Garbo reunited with her lover when he finds her penniless in a little cafe...
...deported, arrived penniless in New York in the wreck of a cotton suit and a battered straw hat. He got a job as staff illustrator on the New York World, almost immediately received his most valued piece of art criticism in an office message from Managing Editor Arthur Brisbane: TELL LUKS TO CUT OUT THE SMEARY GENIUS...