Word: pauper
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...unmarked pauper's grave in Milan's Maggiore Cemetery lay open. Benito Mussolini's body had been stolen. Beside the gutted trench was a letter. "The Duce is among us again," it read. "The time will come when the Duce in his coffin, kissed by our sun, will parade through the streets of Italy, and all the roses of the world and all the tears of our women will not be enough to give extreme greetings to this great...
...Simpl" had met to find an answer to the gravest question human stupidity had ever put to them: "What shall we do when here, too, the Nazis take over?" Simplicissimus' founder, stalwart Thomas Theodor Heine, put the reply calmly: "One simply has to go into exile-pauper fashion...
Into exile, pauper fashion (first in France; later, in the U.S.), went spare, spry Simplicissimus Editor Franz Schoenberner. Confessions of a European Intellectual is the witty, intelligent story of his life-a story whose capacity for hard sense and an all too rare humor gives it a distinct place in refugee literature. As befits the outlook of an editor of satire, it contains no awed descriptions of intimate meetings with famous people; as an intellectual confession it confesses nothing but disrespect for overintellectualized confessions...
Cold Garrets & Warm Music. A considerable amount of immortal music has been written in cold garrets, with an empty larder in the background. Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn lived comfortable lives, but Mozart, after a life of penny-counting, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, and Franz Schubert sold his songs for as little...
...well-paid U.S. soldier, who has found himself a rich man in most of the foreign cities he has visited, had a rude shock last week. He discovered that in both Paris and Brussels he was little better than a pauper...