Word: second-hand
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...cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself." When he learns that his Ma (Ethel Barrymore) is soon to die of cancer, he stays home for a change, helping her with her fusty second-hand goods shop, fending off the devotions of a gently Bohemian cellist (Jane Wyatt) and, rather against his will, falling harder & harder for Ada (June Duprez), the cash-girl at a clattering little Fun Fair...
...meaning: Skourasville). Charlie came to the U.S. first. As a newsboy, dishwasher and bartender, he soon earned enough to send for the others. He settled Spyros into a job as bus boy in St. Louis' Planters' Hotel. They soon saved enough to buy a nickelodeon and a second-hand wrestling mat. They made money running the movie nights and kept fit by wrestling in the mornings. Charlie shucked off persistent film salesmen with the challenge: "I'll rassle you three minutes, and if I don't make you unconscious I'll buy the film...
...learning his job. He gets other frequent lessons from Ford's production boss, white-crested Charles E. Sorensen. Henry II puts in a ten-to twelve-hour day, finds little time for golf (he shoots in the nineties) or to take pictures with his six-year-old second-hand camera. Otherwise he has no hobbies, explains : "There is nothing that I ache to do, for I learned long ago you are too easily disappointed by some change in plans...
...around a Government-imposed $5,000 ceiling on new outlays for stage sets, rival studios have pooled scenery, gone in for second-hand wonderlands...
...special chairmen chosen for each House, the drive will also have the purpose of transferring second-hand books from College owners to the hands of book-hungry service men in the Army, Navy, and Marines...