Word: waif
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned Publisher Laughlin. "Let us oppose the principle of destruction with the principle of creation." Readers found a few contributions (notably a peasant tragedy by the late, great Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, a passage about a prostitute-waif from The Black Book by the English Writer Lawrence Durrell) that seemed creative indeed, many more that seemed fashionably frantic in technique as in content. A section on "American design" was atrociously badly designed. Question: does editorship of such a publication demand merely a generous ear, or also an exacting...
Susannah of the Mounties (Twentieth Century-Fox) is, of course, that old trouper Shirley Temple, age 10, this time a waif from a waylaid wagon train. Her role in the North-West Mounted Police is: 1) making Orderly J. Farrell MacDonald say his prayers and 2) teaching six-foot-two Randolph Scott to waltz, knees akimbo, to the tune of Learning McFadden to Waltz...
Unmarried (Paramount) will be a titillating title on U. S. cinemarquees, though the picture fails to sparkle on the screen. A new once-over of an old Paramount property about a nightclubstress, a prizefighter and a waif, it features slumbery-eyed Helen Twelvetrees and Western Star Buck Jones without his horse, Silver. Buck without Silver is all ham and no eggs...
...than The Song of the World, and written before it, Harvest, a simpler, more sentimental story, has been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came back...
...Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. By a provision of Jay Gould's will none of his children could marry without the consent of the trustees of his estate. She got the consent. She and her husband, who survives her, had no children, but they adopted a three-year-old waif, who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1914. Later they adopted two daughters of her brother Frank...