Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from enjoying the mass reputation of men like Ding. Briggs, Bud Fisher. Something in Art Young resents contracts, syndication and orders as to what ideas he shall draw. He has free-lanced for 35 years in Life, Puck, Judge, Metropolitan and many another magazine, past and present, rather than earn the "big money" that Arthur Brisbane once told him he deserved as a syndicate artist. It was natural, perhaps. that just after giving this advice, Editor Brisbane haggled with Mr. Young over prices. But it helps explain why Young was at his happiest contributing without pay to that ironic monthly...
...they become decrepit; young bruisers whom they could once have walloped, beat their battered noses and knock their false teeth out of mouth. Yet, rebels against time, because they love the sound of invisible watchers in the dark or because they know that they will be unable to earn a living in some other profession, they continue to fight, in little arenas and smelly, half filled armories...
...world. They invented permalloy and thereby quadrupled the amount of messages possible to send over cables. They made long distance and overseas telephony possible. They have saved the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Western Electric Co., for whom they work, millions of dollars, and helped the companies earn more millions...
...cities have their claim agents and ambulance chasers. New York has most. After an accident they scamper to the injured person's door, clamoring to save or earn a few dollars. Their practice is against public welfare. Bar associations, medical associations, the courts, good citizens everywhere have denounced both chasers and agents?futilely...
There are those who earn their daily bread by being beggars. Visitors to Palestine remember particularly the beggars who cluster by the old Wailing Wall in Jerusalem...