Word: spongers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Secretary of the Brooks House claimed knowledge of at least two men who have collected between $1.50 and $4 in three hours with their hard-luck stories. "One of these men is Albert Pike, who is known to several agencies in Boston and Cambridge as a steady and consistent sponger, whose story is invariably convincing," Dennett stated...
...Bernard Baxley (Melville Cooper), late of Singapore ("a man's life!''), has hooded eyes, a wolfish gait, greying hair and a small paunch. Constantly engaged in a verbal scrimmage with his dowdy wife, he eats bananas all day long, wears dirty golf clothes and is a sponger by habit. Mr. Baxley is known as "The Rajah" to his brother-in-law, Mr. Radfern (Edmund Gwenn). John Bull himself, Radfern has a face like the man in the moon, a way of smacking his lips over ham and cheese, an air of honest living. An established householder...
...died trying to stoke a fire with gasoline. To Dr. Ben Reitman, president of Chicago's Hobo College, Batter had left his money, and directions to master the ceremonies. Announced Dr. Reitman: "Everybody eat, drink, and be merry-that's what Harry ordered. Harry was a sponger . . . and no good, but he had a fine heart." Services opened with the singing of "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." Vagrants got drunk, made speeches, piously intoned the Hobo's Prayer. At wake's end, quarters were distributed to every guest. Next day Host Harry Batter was cremated...
Tony and Brenda were happily married, though Brenda. a recent toast of the town, felt exiled in the kind of hearty country life to which Tony was wedded. When John Beaver, a beautiful specimen of the unpopular sponger, spent a weekend with them. Brenda amused herself by being nice to him. One thing led to another and soon Brenda found herself having a full-time affair with the not-too-enthusiastic Beaver, while innocent Tony moped for her at home. The sudden death of their little son brought Brenda into the open. She announced to the stunned Tony that...