Word: beg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the time came to elect a king, the boes looked to their professional ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...
...Just imagine those D.P.s month after month and year after year, sitting there with their own problems. It is demoralizing. I want action on this matter. Please, I beg of you, whatever we may do, let us not leave these people abandoned until [another agency] comes...
Kipling's Rustum Beg of Kolazai "lusted for a C.S.I." (Companion of the Star of India) so avidly that he "built a Gaol and Hospital-nearby built a City drain-till his faithful subjects all thought their ruler was insane." When Rustum Beg was awarded only a lowly C.I.E. (Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire), he got so mad "he disendowed the Gaol-stopped at once the City drain," installed his harem in the hospital...
India's Moslems last week were as angry as Rustum Beg-so angry that they were renouncing the coveted British titles that many of them had served long and fawningly to earn. Sir Mohamed Saadulla, ex-Premier of Assam Province, one of about 435 Indians and Burmans who now hold knighthoods, was angriest. He could 'hardly talk...
...three labor leaders jailed for complicity in Chicago's Haymarket bombing seven years earlier.* For this he was damned far & wide as a "Socialist," a "wild-haired demagogue." Robert Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's only surviving son, rose at a Harvard alumni banquet to beg all good Harvard men to "stand firm in the midst of such dangers in the republic." The press screamed that the Governor was encouraging "anarchy, rapine and the overthrow of civilization...