Word: penniless
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Next morning the Jews' cries and frantic waving of handkerchiefs attracted the attention of Czech villagers. A Czech patrol boat took off the penniless, ill-clad, hungry group...
...when Fools for Scandal was last week presented to U. S. cinemaudiences, Actor-Prince Mike's lowbrowed, pseudo-Romanoff visage had joined the innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy...
...week had little hope for abatement of Nazi prejudice. Although 2,000,000 people live in the city (including 200,000 Jews), there has long been an excess of doctors in the community. Three out of ten Vienna doctors are Jews. Adolf Hitler, who once lived there as a penniless house painter thinks that the populace can get along with less doctoring. The fact that last summer German doctors were permitted to attend a Viennese X-ray congress dominated by Jews last week seemed no warrant against a thoroughgoing Nazi program...
...remorse, is a pompous, ridiculous, formidable figure. "Ah - fine weather," says Papa Pasquier, as he steps outdoors, "or at least pretty good." Although Author Duhamel obviously sympathizes with the hysterical, poetic Laurent, who tells the story, he nevertheless does not spare him. To shame his money-grubbing brother the penniless Laurent takes his first 1,000 francs and horrifies him by tearing it up and throwing it into the Marne. Not for a long time can Laurent steel himself to confess that while he was making his grandiose speech about poetry and greed, he was quietly pocketing...
Kept ignorant of their chief's deal with the social service center, that 30 percent of the earnings be turned over to the annual's sponsors, the committeeman, speaking for his seven penniless colleagues, said, "If they kick it back to P. B. H. we wouldn't yell. The idea of his making a clean-up stirs us to protest...