Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheeler was a philosophical sort. He had grown up in an orphan asylum, had become a depression road-kid, and-before he found a job-a petty criminal. He served his time quietly, although his wife had obtained records which proved he had been at work in New York on the night the policeman was shot in Philadelphia. But after seven years, when the cops failed to keep what he regarded as a solemn promise-to get him out after a short term-he began to fight...
...Theosophy (a watered-down Western copy of Hinduism) while reviewing a book by its founder, Mme. Blavatsky, went to India where she dressed in the native sari, became the leader of the world wide Theosophist movement (present member ship: 150,000). In 1909 she adopted a twelveyear- old Indian orphan boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she declared to be a reincarnation of Christ. Today, having renounced his divinity, he is an itinerant lecturer on mystic subjects, some times known as "the messiah in plus fours." In 1929 Mrs. Besant tried to start a Theosophist colony at her Happy Valley ranch...
Only those with money get food. The shopkeepers show stony-faced callousness for the blind beggar boy, the orphan girl haltingly thrusting an empty G.I. ration can toward the grain baskets...
Sixpence a Week. Ernie (not even at Whitehall would anyone have thought of calling him Ernest) had once been a drayman's boy himself, and a shop clerk and a pageboy and a tram conductor into the bargain. An orphan at six, he had gone to work at ten as a farmhand for sixpence a week, and promptly struck for higher wages. The strike failed. Ernie was fired. Soon afterward he got another job at a shilling a week, plus a bonus of jam on Sunday for reading to his new boss out of Hansard's parliamentary reports...
...mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother of the British Empire...