Word: beggaring
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Columbus' belief that he could sail to India across the Atlantic grew to be a monomania that he could persuade no one to share: the King of Portugal gave him some encouragement, but no help; when he came to Spain he was an exhausted beggar, in his late 40's. Said he: "I must beg my bread because Kings will not accept the Empires that I offer them." When Ferdinand and Isabella finally fitted out his little fleet of three boats, the crews had to be made up of criminals and riffraff: no one else would join...
...Stalinibad, Russia, one Mashnun, 116, beggar, celebrated the birth of a boy to his 17th wife...
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...
...Beggar...
...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...