Word: pauperized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pauper Profit. In Detroit, arrested after he tried to mooch a nickel from a passerby, Panhandler Genter Adams turned over $166 in cash and a bankbook with a $5,728 balance to cops for safekeeping, chose a 90-day jail term instead of a $100 fine, explained: "I can't afford to take all that money out of the bank with the interest rates so high...
...Stockings, first big-league team of all, only Shortstop George Wright went on to become a successful businessman (Wright & Ditson, sporting goods). The rest stayed only a pitch or two ahead of the bill collectors. One died in a San Fran cisco poorhouse; sentimental fans saved another from a pauper's grave. Growing prestige, says Professor Gregory, has opened a new world of post-retirement opportunities for the once-forgotten ballplayer. So many of them have turned to radio and television sportscasting* that the good professor concludes: "Old players never die, they just gab away...
...always been an American. Only member nations were allowed to apply for loans, and since voting strength was weighted by the size of each national subscription (the U.S. has a 30% vote), the U.S. and other like-minded countries could exercise an effective veto over any tendency to pauper profligacy by have-not partners...
...months later, at 35, he was dead. As it was a stormy day, no one followed him to his pauper's grave in Vienna, and to this day nobody knows just where...
...stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual orgies of the time, but he also kept a secretly detached position, regarding himself as a pauper living among millionaires . . . a sullen peasant among the nobility...