Word: vagrant
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...clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed to Heywood Patterson as one of her assailants...
...House. C, Passed (63-to-23) a resolution by Wisconsin's Elaine to repeal the 18th Amendment; sent it to the House (see above). ¶ Passed the $370,000,000 War Department appropriation bill, after providing $20,000,000 to care for 88,000 boys left vagrant by the Depression, at Army camps; sent it to conference. ¶ Passed (53-to-10) a bill by New York's Wagner increasing the R. F. C. jobless relief fund by $300,000,000; sent it to the House...
...seven leading male parts in this year's production: Gaev, age 45; Trofimov, a perpetual student; Lophin, age 38; Epihodov, an old man; Semyonov, a landowner, the comedy part; Firs, the old valet, age 87; and Yaska, a young valet. Minor roles to be filled are those of a vagrant, a station master, and a post office clerk...
...Quebec, an English-speaking vagrant identified himself in the police station as the Holy Ghost. He said he had never been born, hence had no relatives, no race, no nationality. Police noted that all labels had been cut from his clothing. He explained that this was to make it easier to identify him as the Holy Ghost...
...showed in "Dawn Patrol" justified his promotion to stardom. "Union Depot", which, as the name implies, takes as its setting the terminal of a great metropolis, affords him a part for which he is well suited. Doug starts the day with his pal as a well-bearded young vagrant recently released from "the jug". By discovering a travelling salesman's suitcase, which provides him with a clean suit and a "wad", he becomes a gentleman for a day. He meets Joan Blondell, a stage dancer (or chorus girl) who needs sixty dollars to reach her troupe in Salt Lake City...