Word: ragamuffins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...asleep in the locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...
...last week the Communist Party's ragamuffin had grown in public sentiment to a full-sized martyr, and Herbert Morrison, whose minority party exists by trade-union support, had no kidney for a test of strength...
Until 1941 the Daily Worker had been a noisy ragamuffin of British journalism. In a country where newspaper circulations run to millions, only "about 100,000" workers bought it. When war came the Worker followed the Communist Party into guerrilla warfare against His Majesty's Government, and in January 1941 Herbert Morrison's Home Office banned it. Solemn Scotland Yarders moved into the printing offices, solemnly played rummy while the Worker staff got out appeals against the ban. The public, with blitz problems at hand, reacted only dimly...
...Louis' fistic career terminates next week, ten fabulous years of a big coffee-colored boy's life will end. Ten years ago, Joe Louis Barrow was a Detroit ragamuffin, toting ice for fly-by-night icemen to earn a few pennies to keep his feet in shoes. Transplanted from an Alabama cotton patch at the age of 12, the strapping, slow-thinking boy, only two generations away from slavery, had found himself a misfit in city schools where his classmates were nearly half his age. He never got beyond the fifth grade...