Word: beggar
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...masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe to the next for generations. The Jew and the tramp comedians wear costumes that have become as standardized, as remote from ordinary life as the costumes of Harlequin the beggar and Pierrot the peasant. Finally the Burlesque Show gave birth to the richer, more respectable Revue, just as the commedia became the sentimental fantasy of the 19th Century. It is high time that a really good book on the Burlesque Show was written. When it is, Burleycue will...
Among the recent acquisitions which have been installed by Dr. C. L. Kuhn at the Germanic Museum is a large statue called "A Crippled Beggar," which represents the figure of a medieval beggar supported by crutches, and was just completed by the German sculptor Ernst Barlach...
...they are apt to speak of King John. They are a great people, the English, and they have long memories, but they lose their perspective all too frequently in the maze of their personal love or hatred. In a comfortable way they think of King John as a potty beggar who through some physiologic error had been born to exist without a heart...
...broke. Danat, the Darmstädter and National bank, smallest of the three D Banks, failed to open its doors. Hysterical investors started runs on the others. To ward off complete calamity Old Paul von Hindenburg authorized the Government to close all German stock exchanges and banks for two days. Beggar Luther, still dizzy from traveling, climbed into his airplane again and rushed off to Basle to beg again from the Bank for International Settlements...
Breathing Spell, Immediately upon landing at Basle, Dr. Luther was ushered into the rich halls where the chiefs of central banks and U. S. executives waited. His step was firm, but his face deeply lined. Just what Beggar Luther said, remained behind the closed doors of the conference room. But at the end of twelve anxious hours, the word was issued...