Word: beggar
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...while driving in Cheng Hsien Street, my car almost ran over a beggar who lay writhing and twitching in the roadway. I started to get out to help him, but my interpreter warned that in the eyes of the local police I would automatically become responsible for him, would probably have to pay for his funeral. The beggar, the interpreter explained, was dying of starvation. We drove on. On the way back we saw the beggar's body, quite still, with head and shoulders grotesquely protruding into the street while pedestrians and rickshas eddied around...
...winning jockey was Irishman Leo McMorrow, a pro from Mount Shannon, County Sligo. Said he: "It's a once in a lifetime. Lord Mildmay? Poor beggar, he's a heart of fire, but he'll never make...
July 20. The young beggar is getting quite outrageous . . . roaring and heaving like a bull...
...refugee-swollen Shanghai a child collapsed on the steps of a building, too exhausted to unstrap the baby she carried on her back. As she slept, clutching a beggar's cup in her hand, the picture she made was a picture of Nationalist China itself. Last week the bad news that poured into Chiang Kai-shek's tottering capital would have exhausted even the strongest...
...setting, the plot, and the words were familiar enough to Londoners. For it was the same bawdy Beggar's Opera that John Gay had written more than two centuries ago. Unlike some others who had tinkered with Gay's libretto (Frederic Austin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington), Britten had followed it carefully, keeping to the squalor and backside-slapping of 18th Century London. The music, in its latest disguise, was something else again...