Word: bum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the U. S. Government tried and convicted him in June 1923, for using the mails to defraud. Outside the court one Negro woman fell on her knees. Another walked up to her, slapped her hard. "Get yourself up from there, you crazy lunatic. That big fat bum ain't wuth praying for. He done beat me out of my life's savings." When Garvey got out of jail, he was shipped back to his native Jamaica as an undesirable alien. Every time he got himself elected to something in Jamaica, he somehow got himself jailed for something...
Frank is a young bum who has done time for vagrancy and assault but works when he has to, gambles when he can, is still more of a smart hobo than a dumb crook. At a California lunchstand and filling station he panhandles the Greek proprietor for a meal, changes his mind about moving on when he sees the Greek's wife, Cora. The Greek offers him a job. He takes it and in 24 hours Cora too. She hates her husband but has too much sense to run away with Frank. Instead, she suggests they murder the Greek...
...Bowery bum died of malaria in Manhattan. He must have just come from the tropics, reasoned Chief Medical Examiner Charles Norris, and casually noted that the derelict had been a narcotic addict. Another Bowery bum died of malaria, and another, and another. Dr. Norris called his assistants together, ordered: "There's a carrier loose down around Park Row. Watch...
...dope," added Dr. Milton Helpern, one of Dr. Norris' assistants. Perspicacious Dr. Helpern had noticed that every dead malarial bum had been a drug addict. He visualized a huddle of men in Park Row which, once famed for its newspaper establishments, is actually a murky, musty street of pawnshops, stationery stores, clothing shops, and sodden lodging houses where for 25? a night a man can rent a bunk. In one of those hotels had lived three of the dead bums...
...their own," can and must do so only for reasons of state. Disputes will be settled by a Reich Press Court, the judges to be appointed by Dr. Goebbels. Ended is the peculiar German system under which each newspaper had a so-called "responsible editor"-usually the office bum-who stood ready to go to jail for mistakes or libels committed by the staff. From now on every German journalist is legally responsible to and must uphold the State...