Word: unpaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vincent R. Bertocci, Cammarata's lawyer, admitted yesterday that the Valeteria "is in pretty tough shape. The only assets they have are some unpaid bills," he said. "They're only one step away from bankruptcy," he added...
...best jokes are family jokes, jabbing aspects of the entertainment world that age has withered or custom staled. There is a lush spoof of a road-company opera that the unpaid musicians have walked out on; and opera done without music can be flayed without mercy. There is a tearful but cheerful lament by three washed-up queens of the silent films; above all, there is "The Gladiola Girl," a wonderfully funny, insanely accurate burlesque of a routine musical...
...Hebrew will help hold the new nation together. The world outside Israel (including many U.S. Zionists) expected the main cement of the new state to be the Jewish religion, preserved through centuries of vicissitudes. In Israel this seems to have lost its validity. When the Promised Land was the unpaid balance of a divine I.O.U., when they lived among more or less hostile Gentiles, religion was a far more vital force than it is today in Israel. The Jew is supposed to wear a hat; in Tel Aviv, young men risk sunstroke to go hatless. Waiters at the Armon Hotel...
...infant when her Mennonite parents left Russia and joined Canada's new Mennonite colony in the Red River Valley. The empty west assured isolation and few distractions for the Godfearing. They had their churches as they wanted them, without organ, altar or ornamentation. Their preachers were unpaid, farmed for a living. They clung to their pacifism, dressed in the plain garb that allowed no ornamentation or jewelry...
...president, and Mexico had just emerged from years of exhausting civil war. But there were die-hards among the defeated, and these had persuaded the ambitious emperor of the French that there was glory to be got in Mexico. There was also a little matter of unpaid Mexican debts in which Frenchmen were interested. Aware that the U.S., torn by its own civil war, could not interfere, Napoleon set out on an adventure that he expected would bring him fresh laurels (he had defeated Austria only three years before) and would put his protege, the Austrian Archduke Maximilian...