Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edward Hillman, 45, head of Hillman Airways (London-Paris); of high blood pressure; at London. A homeless wanderer from the age of nine, a humble bicycle repairman five years ago, he developed a fleet of 200 motor coaches, an air fleet worth...
Jean Antoine Watteau was born to a Flemish coppersmith in 1684 in the town of Valenciennes. At 14 Jean Antoine began sulking to make his derisive father apprentice him to the best local painter. When he was 17, his master died and Watteau legged it for Paris. Starving, homeless, he had to sell his hat for food. In the shadow of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, he finally got a job painting the same picture of St. Nicolas over & over again for a wholesale picture shop. He rarely signed his work...
...been many and in some cases highly skillful. Now Agnes Rogers has arranged her New York into a book of photographs, assembled with superb judgment from the huge incoherent mass of subjects which the great city presents. Lower Manhattan at dawn, Scarsdalers waiting herd-like for the 8.52; a homeless drunk sprawled on the sidewalk, semi-human sardines jammed into the subway; Mrs. $25,000-a-year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same...
...lunch-room in Phillips Brooks House, which became increasingly important as the center of the commuter's social life. It was a temporary improvement, which has ceased to be satisfactory. The facilities of the lunch-room are admittedly inadequate, but the P.B.H., that notorious catch-all for all homeless organizations, has done its best to serve the commuter until there can be a more permanent arrangement...
Casualties: 1,661 dead, 5,414 injured, 250,000 homeless. Damages...