Word: beggared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joshers. No community chest has Butte, Mont. But one pre-Prohibition day, some of Butte's businessmen, having a drink together before going home to carve the Christmas goose, were confronted by a starving beggar. Said he: "My wife is ill and I've got children who are absolutely certain Santa Claus is coming tomorrow morning." The businessmen took up a collection and decided thereafter always to take care of their poor neighbors for two weeks at Christmastime. They called themselves the Joshers Club and now, instead of community chestmen, beaming Joshers buttonhole the townsfolk to help Butte...
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...Warsaw, Poland, Moses Feingold, 70, beggar, learned that his brother John, who had emigrated to the U. S., whom he had not seen for 65 years, had bequeathed him $1,000,000. Beggar Feingold went insane...
THERE are few ages in the history of England about which it is easier to become romantic than that of Anne and George the First. The gay, corrupt life pictured in "The Beggar's Opera", when Walpole talked of a man and his price, and nobody's virtue was over-nice lends itself admirably to a bit of rich imaginative writting by a scholar who knows the period and its people and can see through the eyes of a contemporary...
...Boston, one Vincent Featherstone has sold more than one million tickets in his 39 years in the box office of the Hollis Theatre. Last week he took one of the tickets, went inside, saw The Beggar's Opera, first play he had attended, he said, in 39 years...