Word: ragamuffins
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...Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victor's heels and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today, while still lacking an army, becomes a factor of might once more." THE LOCARNO PACT was prettied up in "The Spirit of Locarno" by being tied with what was called "blue ribbon, the color of the Blue Bird of Happiness, the color of peace." Supplemental Locarno accords were made even prettier with a Maypole effect achieved by intertwining ribbons in the colors of the signatory states. Inevitably this lush, pre-Depression spirit gave way to the spirit...
...crowd which crowded the Dining Hall to overflowing registered emphatic approval of the tutors' antics as Falstaff's ragamuffin soldiers. An worldly horde they formed featuring Mess Potter and Bissell the former with great fur rug glued to his with a and the latter coyly holding chest depicting a frolicking baby Elephant...
...girl from the mountains who looked strapping but whose blood was dangerously thin. Dr. Gion had to advise her not to have her baby, but he sympathized with her when she would not consider an abortion, even though she knew the birth would kill her. Young Toni was a ragamuffin who made a few pennies for his grandmother by peddling sights of the stars through his telescope. His great enemy was a crazy old man who thought Toni was threatening to bombard the town...
...clear that Citizen Parker was in deadly earnest. And when John Parker is in earnest he can fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself...
...Champ (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) will probably extract more tears than any other cinema made in 1931, with the possible exception of The Sin of Madelon Claudet (TIME, Nov. 9). It is about a broken-down pugilist (Wallace Beery) and his ragamuffin son (Jackie Cooper). There is really only one situation-Jackie Cooper struggling to go on worshiping his father in the face of Beery's unworthy behavior (guzzling, crap-shooting, brawling in bad company) and Beery, shamed at his shiftlessness, struggling to preserve his son's loyalty. Every time Beery gets drunk, gambles away the racehorse which...