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...unnamed village learn that an inspector from St. Peterburg will soon visit their town, and may be travelling incognito. When they hear that a well-dressed stranger from Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money. He, soon guessing the truth, is delighted. His efforts to squeeze as much...
...year and a half before Weiner, was evidently such a leader. The most frequent description of him is "an animal--he got people to work for him through the brute force of his personality." Under Ross, the organization was transformed from a small, tightly knit, party-oriented, penniless club into what observors call "a three ring circus." Party politics were placed second to building membership and raising money. Through a highly-successful speakers program Ross succeeded in doing both. But, according to one former executive the club became so dependent on Ross's personality that when his term was over...
...trader; Mama, who came of a long line of rabbis, was determined that he should become a scholar. So when Papa left the tiny Russian-Jewish village of Uzlian to try his luck in America. Mama immediately sent her five-year-old son off to her uncle, a penniless rabbi who lived several hundred miles away. For almost five years the little boy lived there. He was an only child among a household of grownups; he rose with them at sunup and for twelve or 14 hours a day intoned pages of ancient texts in Hebrew and Aramaic until...
...There is a Mallett's Bay on northern Lake Champlain, only five miles from Winooski, as well as a Mallett's Creek and Mallett's Head, but they all appear to have been named for one Captain Stephen Mallet, a French recluse who died alone and penniless in the area in the 1790s...
...customers no longer came to him. "Even people I helped, even people I lent money to pay the rent," he said, "they let me down." Negrón had been forced to sell his store for $400, even though he bought it for $5,000. He was left almost penniless, and his wife...