Word: pauper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simultaneously the Count's attorneys in Vienna cabled that the Republican Courts of Austria have denied him the right to plead as a pauper or bankrupt, "on the grounds that Count Karolyi continues to reside in such expensive capitals as Paris, London and New York...
...worst feeling in the world, is no respecter of persons. Bolstering the semicircular canals with earplugs helps some people. Shutting the eyes also helps, since the sympathetic nervous system is also affected by optical unsteadiness. Drinking champagne is another remedy. But the best thing of all, for seasick prince, pauper or potentate, is to surrender completely and lie down. . . . Returning to Key West from Havana on the swift cruiser Memphis, President Coolidge lay down.* Secretary Wilbur filled an engagement the President had made to address the ship's officers and crew...
...Cook, once a milkman and Brooklyn physician, is now 62 and a pauper. Some people believe that he is mentally, unbalanced. (He still says he thinks he reached the North Pole.) Others say that he is a much maligned man. Edwin Swift Balch of Philadelphia, a distinguished scientist and explorer who died last week, firmly upheld Dr. Cook's integrity. Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, said last week: "He [Cook] is one of the finest men I have ever known. As physician, with the Antarctic expedition of 1897-99, which was frozen...
...that in life where such a thing happens one of two things is bound to follow, either she will madly plunge deeper till in a few years (10 to 15) she will go down in disgrace to a grave where such fallen women find a place, usually the pauper field; or, if in horror she recoils from what she has done she will live her life as best she may always feeling the "scarlet letter" on her breast even though it cannot be seen by others...
...will be a place for the cerise red flannels, of this the social service men are certain. Once red, possibly crimson, this relie of a more cantious era of students yet retains enough color to complete the regalia of a Senegambian chief of comfort the heart of some Polynesian pauper...