Word: penniless
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...willing to admit, at least privately, some unhappy realities: the incumbent Democratic Governor, Paul A. Dever, has managed to build a massive and efficient machine; his opponent, Representative Christian A. Herter '15, lacks the color and personal appeal to buck this machine; the Republican State Committee is virtually penniless; and the Democratic candidate for Senator, John F. Kennedy '40, has been campaigning vigorously since last spring while his opponent, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '37, was busy persuading General Eisenhower...
...Davis isn't making the trip because he's penniless...
This cheerful excuse for a plot is taken seriously by neither Sholom Aleichem nor his characters. What matters is the vivid parade of penniless producers, starving actors, shrewd sharpers and keen-witted kibitzers who rollick through the book. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts of Dickens: a director with three wives, a sentimental actress always in search of a husband, and harmless scoundrels who are never happier than when plotting to steal each other's prima donnas...
...paneled courtroom where he was standing trial, applauded lustily, for the swindles that Faustino had perpetrated were just such poems as all their dreams were made of. For 15 days last year, he had convinced them all-and many a harder head into the bargain-that a certain penniless foundling named Maria del Rosario was in reality a marquesa possessed of vast lands and riches. A local bank had cheerfully advanced money to Maria to clothe her new dignity. Maria had established herself and her foster parents in a new home to await delivery of her lands and castles...
...inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately on the newly rich; back of every exquisite dinner stands a temperamental chef with handlebar mustaches. It has been Bemelmans' art to convince his U.S. public not only that such a dream world exists, but that Bemelmans himself carries the skeleton...