Word: pauperizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priced Paradise night club stepping languidly onto the floor, topheavy in vast headdresses. From unposed angles of posed spectacles Photographer Lohse had progressed to Manhattan scenes at night: a night newsboy buying his papers from a delivery man, idlers mooning into store windows. One series showed pauper children, black & white, eating at a soup-kitchen board; another showed primped little scions of the rich at Publisher Conde Nast's party for his daughter Leslie's third birthday...
Prospector Near Romeo, Mich., J. W. Fowler, 73, near-blind pauper worn from a lifetime of prospecting for gold, was informed that a $15,000 legacy had been awaiting him for 70 years. Asked what he would do with his money, Prospector Fowler's dim eyes gleamed. Said he: "I know of a wonderful mining country in Canada where a man can make a fortune...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Pauper Mamie Gehrke, cashing her city food slip, shrilled at Grocer Jacobs that she would take her trade elsewhere if he did not cash her slips for cigarets instead of food. Grocer Jacobs had Pauper Gehrke arrested...
...rates are still much higher in the lower income groups than in others. Until the death rate does not vary according to income, it seems paradoxical to claim that wage earners are receiving a living wage. Poverty is by no means vanquished. . . . One man in ten is buried a pauper. . . . We devote more attention to making money than to spending it. . . . The bargaining power of women is weak. . . . Bad housing persists in part because of the durability of the construction materials used in old houses...
...Elena's glamorous history. Then the relicts of the Hapsburg Court return, some from London millinery shops, others from managing positions in Swiss boarding houses, and as piece de resistance comes Prince Rudolph from his taxi business to revive memories in Vienna and to toy with champagne on a pauper's holiday. Elena is attacked by severe nostalgia and goes to the party, confronts the irrepressible Rudolph, and so Love bursts the bonds of home courses in applied psychology and sweeps all before it as in Hapsburg days...