Word: urchin
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...three-year-old promptly hauled it out of the royal waistcoat, inspected it solemnly. Stepping backward H. R. H. trod on the foot of an urchin named Patrick...
...tedious travelog in which Cooper, as the captain of a tramp steamer, and Miss Colbert, as nurse to a foundling whom the captain has picked up in a dory, voyage together from Central America to Manhattan. At the end of the voyage they are engaged. The foundling, an inarticulate urchin, gives a more sure-fire performance than either Cooper or Colbert. By crawling out on deck and sitting in the rain, he catches pneumonia. This indisposition resolves the difficulties which result from Cooper's discovery that his fiancee has been an inmate of a pleasure house in Cristobal. Shot...
...Baltimore & Ohio, personal legal adviser to the late Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill; after long illness; in Washington. For 32 years his parentage was unknown to him. His mother took him to Cincinnati at the age of five, then disappeared. He lived in a drygoods box with another urchin, sold newspapers, blacked boots. Placed in an orphanage, he escaped in 1865 and by selling "extras" telling of Lincoln's assassination accumulated $4.50, went to Toledo to look for his mother. His impression that she had brought him from Toledo to Cincinnati was verified in 1890, when an aunt read...
...Warner). Seven members of a middle class family, accidentally present when a gangster kills a policeman, are terrorized by the gangster's subordinates to dissuade them from giving evidence against the murderer. First the gangsters kidnap and beat the father. Then they kidnap and prepare to despatch his urchin son. Finally, a spry, flask-nipping, Civil War veteran grandfather (Chic Sale) rescues the urchin. He wobbles into court munching his whiskers and ready to give the district attorney (Walter Huston) a star witness...
When the wheels of the big white Lock- heed Winnie Mae kicked a cloud of Roosevelt Field dust into the sunset one evening last week, they ended a story already read and reread by every newsreader in the land. Any urchin in the crowd of 10,000 that milled about the field could have told how the plane had left Solomon Beach near Nome two days before on the last laps of its round-the-world flight (TiME, July 6); how Navigator Harold Gatty had miraculously escaped serious injury when the propeller kicked him; how one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post...