Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Harbaugh, 75, one of the authors of the Nick Carter Detective Stories and other dime novels; penniless in the Miami County Home, Ohio. He wrote from 300 to 600 thrillers, at the rate of one a week, with pen; later, in the days of the typewriter, he sometimes bettered his speed...
...Nichols has been chiefly conspicuous as the author and impresario of the ubiquitous Abie's Irish Rose. Artistically one of the worst and financially the greatest achievement of the U. S. Theatre, Abie has put Miss Nichols upon uneasy street. It has rendered her prosperous in dollar bills and penniless in artistic admiration. There are those who suggest irreverently that Miss Nichols is shriving herself before the critics by importing accredited...
...Doctor. Medical practise he began as assistant to a formidable creature, half lunatic, half genius, half doctor, half quack, who later turned against him and cunningly contrived to leave him stranded practically penniless in Portsmouth. A minute practice and an occasional short story kept him alive. At about this time, the Sherlock Holmes stories began to be written...
...hopped off for Paris just as process servers reached the field to serve a writ of injunction on him from Edgar Grubbins, A. H. Daley, and J. S. P. Sanborne, English capitalists who claim to hold the majority rights in Matthews' invention. According to Grubbins, Matthews was penniless when he met him, and the entire expenses of the experiments were paid by the business...
Rosa Sücher, aged 75, famed opera singer, was discovered "living crippled, bed-ridden and penniless at a small inn near Aachen." Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante...