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...with 350,000 children, will be enjoying their pensions and let them say to these people: 'You are victims of a rich man's budget.' Let them go into 6,000,000 homes and tell the wives who will have behind them a guarantee they will not be left penniless if anything happens to the breadwinner: 'Here is another case of the Conservative Party helping their friends.' Let them go in 1928 to the 500,000 men and women of 65 who will march or hobble up to receive their pensions and say: 'Comrades, we meant to give you these...
...upbringing and over into melon-snitching, horse-borrowing, neighbor-baiting pestiferation that earned him many beatings and an early discharge from Dartmouth College. Posturing as a ship's doctor, he went off to sea. A sharp, overweening tongue landed him in irons, foolish but innocent. At home again, penniless, he calculated his next plan for a career more thoughtfully. He stole some of his father's sermons and marched off under an assumed name looking for an empty pulpit. With admirable casuistry, he told himself that, since men liked to be preached to, it mattered not who preached...
When Prince Ahab heard it suggested that he give his daughter to a penniless prophet, he roared with mirth and indignation. Judith wept for three days. At the end of this time, one Hiram, a merchant of Tyre, came to enchant her heart with tales of cities by the shores of seas. "Oh, how I should like to be a merchant," she cried. Jonah could not get work; the place for a successful prophet, people said, was in the desert. At last he went to Judith for comfort. When he spoke of their love, she twisted her shawl. . . . "I hardly...
...years later, little Herbert was shipped to London, where he attended the City of London School and was early taught "to fend for himself." This incident has given rise to the fiction that he was penniless. His allowance was extremely small, 'because his family believed in young men making their fortunes unaided, but his father was comfortably off and the maternal grand folks were rich...
...suffered a wound in the leg, was mustered out, returned to the U. S. He played here and there, made money, gave it away. In Austria, 17 Russian, British, French, Italian artists he knew, were stranded, penniless. For three years he supported them, their families. He contributed to the U. S. Red Cross. Feeling against Germany, against Austria, was growing. People knew that he had served in the Austrain Army. Sometimes, when he played in U. S. cities, there were boos and catcalls jumbled with the applause; sometimes a disorderly hiss would interrupt his, music. In 1917, he canceled...