Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader of national revolution ... of social revolution ... of religious revolution. . . . How daringly and with what utter abandon Jesus endeavored to rescue the church and society of that day from its myriad ills and to awaken the masses from their ignorance! . . . Struggle and sacrifice are a revolutionary's duty. This also was the attitude of Jesus. This was my meaning on a former occasion when I said, 'Until peace has become hopeless, never forsake peace; when sacrifice has become necessary, then sacrifice without reservation...
...Eighty-two -year -old Sigmund Freud and his family last week were allowed to leave Vienna, went to London. He was permitted to take his library with him, had to abandon his other properties including his publishing house. According to the London Daily Herald, Sigmund Freud was held in Vienna until wealthy friends paid a ransom for his release. In London, in the furnished house in Chelsea his son Ernst has rented for him, Freud will pick up his interrupted labors-at present a psychoanalysis of the Bible...
...unshakable logic of this plot has recommended it to producers: it appears, not once, but twice, on the local screen. In "Joy of Living" (Joie de Vivre) the girl is Irene Dunne, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is resented and married. The carefree abandon of this film, the charm of Miss Dunne, Jerome Kern's music, the able comedy of Jean Dixon, atone for the rest of the cast and make this a very fine farce...
...Third, abandon this economy of scarcity and go in for production work and thrift...
Welles's catholic tastes include Broadway, swing music, the cinema, but he has no hobbies. "I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it." How much money Welles is making he will not say. He is not even sure he knows. His habit at the Mercury is to draw "what he needs" from the box onice usually, the box office reports, some $200 a week. Houseman does the same. Says Welles: "Houseman and I aren't making enough money to cheat each other...