Word: pauperize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...prize composition packed with cinematic moments. It revolves about a character who may turn out to be the most satisfying heroine since Scarlett O'Hara. America Moncure catches the womanly public coming & going: she is at once a Jezebel, a faithful wife, a W.C.T.U.-pledgee, a patrician, a pauper, a farmer, a mother of ingrate children sired by a worthless husband, a passionate creature, an unsatisfied creature, a high-grade businesswoman. Her hair is "glossy as a fresh-shucked chestnut," and even in old age her "crooked little smile" only adds to her good looks...
...descendant of a Minute Man who fought at Lexington and Concord, Harold Rugg studied civil engineering at Dartmouth, spiked rails in the Middle West, taught at University of Illinois and University of Chicago, classified Army personnel in World War I. All this, he says, left him an intellectual pauper, ignorant of "the creative revolution even then rolling up in America" His awakening began on Jan.1, 1920, when he went to Teachers College's new, progressive Lincoln School...
...courage of the War Liberals, for it would appear that a democratizing process is really under way there. Labor has increased its voice in the government councils, taxation is having a levelling effect, and the morale of the old reactionary ruling group seems to have been shaken. Peer and pauper are getting to know each other in the chummy atmosphere of a bomb shelter...
...youthful Main Line socialite and financier. Son of the late Daniel B. C. Catherwood, tea merchant, banker, yachtsman, with his mother (now dead) and sister young Catherwood inherited $15,000,000 outright in 1929, and trust funds that even in lean 1932 paid him $1445,070. His wife, no pauper, is Virginia Tucker Kent (daughter of onetime Radioman Atwater Kent...