Word: pauperizing
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Five-sevenths of all gold mined last year was dug out of the British Empire, no pauper...
...Secretary of the Interior, Prisoner No. 6991 has behaved himself well, should, with good time off, get out May 8. Still unpaid is his $100,000 fine. If he is unable to pay it, he will have to remain another 30 days in prison and take the pauper's oath. Prison medical facilities, the Board of Parole felt, were adequate for treating the heart trouble, chronic tuberculosis, chronic pleurisy and arthritis which many of his friends expected to kill Prisoner No. 6991 before he reached freedom...
Died. Arthur Schnitzler, 69, Viennese novelist, poet and dramatist (Casanova's Homecoming, Professor Bernhardi, Fraülein Else, Rhapsody, etc.); of a stroke, while re-writing a play; in Vienna. In a codicil to his will he directed that his funeral be "of the very last" (pauper's) class, that the money thus saved be distributed among hospitals, that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of death...
...change also brought Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against him, however, is a $100,000 fine. To clear that debt without paying it, Bribee Fall must remain an extra 30 days in jail and take the pauper's oath...
...Audite haec omnes gentes, auribus percipite omnes qui habitatis orbem, simul in unum dives et pauper...