Word: ragamuffins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That lug was Edgar Bergen, who 20 years ago, at 16, sketched Charlie's features after those of a ragamuffin Chicago newsboy, paid $35 to have them whittled in wood by a woodcarving barkeep named Mack, and since then has made a tidy fortune speaking his nimble mind through Charlie's lips. Bergen himself is professionally shy, so that the fresh guy, Charlie, seems a distinct personality...
...Give a Million (Twentieth Century-Fox). When word gets around the Riviera that a millionaire in tramp's clothing has 1,000,000 francs to bestow for one kind deed, a wave of benevolence envelops every mudlark and ragamuffin in the South of France. But to the real millionaire (Warner Baxter) a pretty circus performer (Marjorie Weaver) is most kind, and nobody doubts who is to get the million. Result: a comic-opera Riviera, almost but not quite a lively, amusing farce...
Nearly 19 years ago, in a motion picture called The Kid, a saucy, bright-eyed little ragamuffin, taffy hair rumpled untidily under a tattered caricature of a cap, scampered into the hearts of the world cinemaudience clinging to the threadbare coattails of Charlie Chaplin. The kid was Jackie Coogan. Before he was 10, Jackie was a corporation, Jackie Coogan Productions...
Translating all this into Western terms, an army of goose-stepping choir boys had marched this week into an unregenerate old pagan stronghold. Ragamuffin Communists were trying to persuade the choir boys and everyone else to go Red. And opium reared the ugly head of Vice...
...liked school, where he was soon known as a poker-faced humorist and mimic. Chekhov loved practical jokes and disguises, once got himself up like a ragamuffin and fooled his uncle into giving him three kopeks. His teachers were fond of him, but none of them thought him exceptional. When he was 16 his father failed in business, packed his family off to Moscow. Chekhov stayed behind in Taganrog to finish school. When he joined his family three years later, he found them in worse straits than ever. Thereafter, though he had two older brothers, it was Chekhov...