Word: povertyâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...still strong, but?"Too old," said employer after employer. She sank from poverty to poverty???jobs got fewer and fewer. Accident rescued her at last?and put her in charge of the motherless little Meyerbogens?children of an enormous, kindly, widowed baker at Coronation Point. They appreciated her?at last she began to belong to a real family. And there settled, for the time at least, and, fairly content, we leave...
Berlin again?utter poverty???furious labor, this time on a novel?failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there...