Word: beggar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month another ring of prospering foreign traders was broken up in the Moslem Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Alas, a railroad policeman was on the platform of Tashkent's station when coins clinked at the feet of an elderly beggar. The cop discovered that the coins were solid gold and bore the face of Czar Nicholas...
Sewn into the beggar's rags were coins, pearls and precious stones...
With one eye on The Beggar's Opera, Bart has contrived a sort of lovable rogues' operetta, Oliver! is chockablock with songs that are as straightforward, single-minded and rhythmic as a choo-choo train, and they do keep the show steaming briskly and more or less merrily along. Five months on the road have given the company the treacherous confidence, on reaching Broadway, to overplay characters that were already over written to the point of caricature. The cast also knows where all the laughs are buried, and it squirrels them out with stagy anticipatory glee. Bruce Prochnik...
...knows, runaway film productions have turned Hollywood from a suburb into a synecdoche, and Hollywood's people are living under every other rock from County Galway to the Areopagus hill. Knock on any castle, there's a star inside. Don't stop to photograph that shabby beggar by the European roadside; he's just a scenario writer looking for work...
...Worker is one of eleven Communist periodicals still published in the U.S. Once a daily with 100,000 circulation, it now struggles into print only twice a week. It is a chronic beggar, surrounding its dialectic with incessant pleas for cash. Ads come hard. Its chief, and sometimes its only, account is Harry's Clothes Shop on Third Avenue, an establishment that knows an out-at-elbows tovarish when it sees one, and offers him suits for $10 to $15, alterations free. The Worker's editor is James Edward Jackson Jr., 48, a mustached man who rose...