Word: beggared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stand before you as a beggar. I have lost all for the fatherland. Only my good name is left, but even this I would be willing to sacrifice for the cause of Hungary...
...adding my pittance to the collection before Emerson. For there I shall stand and puzzle the question of a twelve o'clock. Nor is this one easy question to decide. Professor Copeland--though he considers Vagabonds too casual for real appreciation of Dr. Johnson, surely cannot refuse one peregrinating beggar from hearing him discuss from the rostrum of Sever 11 certain moot points in the works of the great lexicographer. And in Emerson D Professor Hocking manifestly welcomes argument on the Case of Democracy--argument perhaps a trifle subtle for Vagabondian comprehension--but at all events, worth while...
Marc Connelly is primarily responsible for this curiously distinguished adventure. Mr. Connelly is the man who worked so long and so successfully with George Kaufman in the manufacture of such plays as Merton of the Movies and Beggar on Horseback. The Wisdom Tooth is his first flight alone...
...fortnight after he had so graciously propped up his company, Mr. Rosenwald won a prize in a newspaper contest, a prize of $5 for submitting the day's best motto: "I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend my money like a beggar," a phrase from Robert Ingersoll, robustious iconoclast...
...beggar not at all, Mr. Rosenwald yet gives regally, in million dollar gestures, usually with a stipulation that the recipient secure some complement no matter how small. Some gifts: to 13 Negro Y. M. C. A.'s and 2 Y. W. C. A.'s in 13 cities having a Negro population of about a million, $2,750,000; to the University of Chicago and other institutions, $700,000; to the establishment of a University of Chicago Medical School, $500,000; to the Wilmer (Eye) Institute Fund of Johns Hopkins University, $50,000; to the creating of "neat...