Word: pauperizing
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...shun the fact that we were the poorest family in South Boston." The family stove was fueled with stray lumps of coal that Knocko and Dannie picked up in the railroad yards, and John's meager earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket," says Knocko. "Those baskets didn't have any oranges or grapefruit or nuts in 'em. It was a yard of dried fish and a bag of potatoes...
...whose loadstone was high society; of a kidney ailment; in Worcester, Mass. A quiet operator in the Roaring '205, Monahan mingled gracefully with intended victims on the ballroom floor, later climbed second-story ladders for a lifetime take of $5,000,000 (insured value), but died a pauper because he couldn't get an honest job after 31 years in jail...
...census takers were obliged to ask whether the respondent was perhaps a former convict, a pauper, or an idiot...
...subjects as the boredom of suburban marriages. He is perhaps at his best writing about bars, which he does with all the poignancy of Dickens describing Christmas dinner at the Cratch-its'. But when Price's comeuppance arrives-wine, women and the SEC have made him a pauper-the reader finds it hard to believe that the man is truly shattered. This may be because an ex-wife gallantly bails him out with a $1,000,000 gift. At book's end, Craig broods, in italics: "How very rich he'd be if he owned anything...
...small parts on such dramatic shows as the U.S. Steel Hour. (On the Armstrong show about the liner Andrea Doria, Patty was the child tossed overboard by her mother.) Soon Patty had worked up to a leading part and rave notices for her performance in The Prince and the Pauper...