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...Beggar On Horseback (1924), Mr. Kaufman's jibe at the popular ballade was "If You Turned Me Down Like You Turned Me Down, Then Why Did You Turn Me Down...
Among the other items to be exhibited are both the drawing and the finished pastel of the "Portrait of a Woman"; his well-known painting, "The Laundresses", and a very early portrait. "An Old Italian Beggar Woman." A large, unfinished canvas, another "Woman at the Bath," will be placed on exhibition for the first time...
...Ellen" Wilkinson?who visits the U. S., recoils in horror at the sight of unemployed apple-sellers, denounces the heartless degradation and the public shame, thanks God that the British proletarian can hold up his head and proudly take his "benefits," instead of cringing and smirking like a beggar at some sour-faced old lady who may buy an apple or two tangerines...
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...Chicago, August Eichenberg sat on a sidewalk, his body distorted, his head drooping, his hat in his lap. Sympathetic passersby tossed him coins. Then a woman looked at his face, fainted. No beggar, August Eichenberg was a corpse, had dropped dead on his way home from work...