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The version of "The Gold Diggers Song" by the Boswell Sisters from 1933 featured the lyrics "Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief / Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief / They're all in the money now." The lyrics of Johnny Otis 's 1958 hit " Willie and the Hand Jive " mention "the doctor, the lawyer and the Indian chief."
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, Or what about a cowboy, policeman, jailer, engine driver, or a pirate chief? Or what about a ploughman or a keeper at the zoo, Or what about a circus man who lets the people through? Or the man who takes the pennies on the roundabouts and swings,
The first film, "Charlie Smith at 131" (30 minutes) was made 1973 and directed by Michael Rabiger for the BBC "Yesterday's Witness" series. [citation needed]Smith's "life story" (which he took great delight in relating to interviewers and visitors) was dramatized on film in 1978 in a 90-minute episode of the PBS television series Visions titled "Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree."
When Joseph Boakai won a place at Liberia's prestigious College of West Africa in the 1950s, he helped pay his fees by working as the school janitor, cleaning floors and toilets at night and ...
On being asked how many seconds a man has lived, who is seventy years, seventeen days and twelve hours old, he answered, in a minute and a half, 2,210,500,800. One of the gentlemen, who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations, told him he was wrong, and that the sum was not so great as he had said-upon which the old man ...
"Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch", also known as "Old Man travelling" is a poem written by William Wordsworth.It was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads – a collection of poems created in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The poem’s writing process began in the second half of 1796. [7] [8] In its earliest form, the work existed under the title “Description of a Beggar”. [7]A part of the text, which was originally situated after sixty-six lines of today’s version of “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, was removed from the poem and made into a separate work, “Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch”. [2]
The executions were described by journalist Larry C. Price as a "nightmarish scenario" in which the executed men were "murdered in front of screaming crowds of jubilant indigenous Liberian citizens." Cecil Dennis was the last man to be shot and was reported to have defiantly stared his killers down while uttering a prayer before his execution. [12]