Word: beggaring
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Costanza died soon after, and Frederick grew up in Palermo, an unseen and uncared-for ward of the Pope. The boy, living almost as a beggar child, learned Arabic from the seaport's Arab sailors. He was to learn more than half a dozen other languages, including Hebrew and English. At 14 he was crowned King of Sicily. He held no power and had neither arms nor money. But by his late teens, chiefly by force of an agile mind and a personality radiantly well suited to rabble-and noble-rousing, he had seized control of his inherited German...
Last month another ring of prospering foreign traders was broken up in the Moslem Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Alas, a railroad policeman was on the platform of Tashkent's station when coins clinked at the feet of an elderly beggar. The cop discovered that the coins were solid gold and bore the face of Czar Nicholas...
Sewn into the beggar's rags were coins, pearls and precious stones...
With one eye on The Beggar's Opera, Bart has contrived a sort of lovable rogues' operetta, Oliver! is chockablock with songs that are as straightforward, single-minded and rhythmic as a choo-choo train, and they do keep the show steaming briskly and more or less merrily along. Five months on the road have given the company the treacherous confidence, on reaching Broadway, to overplay characters that were already over written to the point of caricature. The cast also knows where all the laughs are buried, and it squirrels them out with stagy anticipatory glee. Bruce Prochnik...
...knows, runaway film productions have turned Hollywood from a suburb into a synecdoche, and Hollywood's people are living under every other rock from County Galway to the Areopagus hill. Knock on any castle, there's a star inside. Don't stop to photograph that shabby beggar by the European roadside; he's just a scenario writer looking for work...