Word: beggar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because they refused to work nine hours a day, the proprietors of the Baden Aniline Dye Works at Ludwigshafen and Oppau dismissed 20,000 of their workers. At Hamburg, the City Fathers invented "beggars' bonds" which charitably inclined persons are to give to mendicants instead of cash. The idea is to prevent the professional beggar from earning more than he deserves. Each bondholder will have his past looked into before the Municipality parts with any cash...
Albert, King of Belgium: "One Harold Kellock, writing in The Freeman, now defunct, described a character appearing in a current Manhattan theatrical production (Beggar on Horseback) as follows: 'He is a Herculean person, like Albert of Belgium, though, of course, he looks more intelligent...
...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK-A brilliant dream fantasy, at which the tired business man dies a lingering death from...
...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK-A brilliant dream fantasy, at which the tired business man dies a lingering death from...
...Beggar on Horseback. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies! have gratified even more than usual their impish itching to scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family...