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...cinema; of a throat infection; in Hollywood. During the early '203 he blushed, grinned and gallus-thumbed his way into $100,000 a picture, spent much of his fortune on turquoise bathtubs, lost most of the remainder in his independent production of The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923). Penniless by 1934, he later accepted bit parts, tried to write scripts...
...friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together. "Och, it was only the way he kissed my hand," she wistfully explains about the Count...
...trip was costly: large sums were needed to buy a passage through Jap lines and past bandit hordes. Many an ex' hausted wife reached Chungking penniless and almost naked to find a concubine in her rightful place. Too often the concubine was herself a "modern girl," unwilling to retire and dead against accepting the traditional role of handmaiden. For some there were successful compromises, but for most court seemed the only answer. ("Two spoons in the same bowl will knock against each other.") Then courts became so clogged that a "duration" moratorium on all such cases was proclaimed...
Insulted and Injured. Modern readers know Griswold because of someone else. A penniless, difficult poet dogged him all his life. This poet was drunk, tormented, wild. Griswold replaced him as Graham's editor. Griswold quarreled with him, patronized him, lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will...
...flew the U.S. flag and kept its Chinese students right up to Pearl Harbor. When the Japs seized the college, students and faculty lit out for West China. One group of nine, trapped in a village surrounded by Japanese, were rescued by a timely guerrilla raid. Another party, penniless, found a roll of bedding on a train, turned it in to the Y.M.C.A. They were rewarded with $2,000 by a merchant who had lost it-hidden in the roll...