A: I had a lot of debt, I overspent, and basically lived hand-to-mouth for years, with no savings at all.
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Ms. Bioh, 34, grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, the youngest of three siblings in a tight-knit, tough-love family that often lived hand-to-mouth.
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And the thing is this: if the Good and Bad Places are supposed to be for all mankind, what about all those people over the past 500 years who have lived in places where they lived hand-to-mouth, where they weren't participating in any "complicated" system the way the show has set it up, where each of your choices has far-reaching repercussions because of the economic systems in which we live.
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Pirotta was born at Naxxar, Malta.All biographical information is reproduced from Mark Montebello’s Angelo Pirotta: A Maltese philosopher of the first water, Maltese Dominican Province, Malta, 2006, with full permission of the copyright holders. Even if his family lived hand to mouth, he was the first of thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy. Pirotta was first privately schooled by Canon Fortunato De Bono.
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He founded the short-lived National Producer's Alliance in 1923, and later promoted the drilling of an oil well in Robinson, North Dakota in 1926. Through the depression he lived hand-to-mouth as a traveling salesman. In 1934, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Minnesota. In the late 1940s, shortly after his wife and foster daughter died, he lived near New Effington, South Dakota, with a faith-healing group.
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Anne Webster-Onedin (Anne Stallybrass), entered into the marriage in full recognition that it was a business transaction. She was the conscience of James and, when she could not take his ruthless business nature any more, left him and lived hand to mouth in the Liverpool slums, seriously affecting her health. On her reconciliation with James, she ignored the doctor's warning not to get pregnant, knowing how much James wanted a son and heir, and died giving birth to a daughter, Charlotte. "Captain" Baines (Howard Lang) William Baines (Howard Lang), first mate to James Onedin.
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His first stories were serialized in newspapers. Early in his career, he began signing his tales as "Captain Salgari", a title he once defended in a duel when his claim to it was questioned. Though knighted by the Queen of Italy and wildly popular, Salgari did not earn much money from his books and lived hand to mouth for most of his life. Salgari married Ida Peruzzi – nicknamed "Aida," - with whom he had four children – which added to the family's economic problems – and with whom he was very happy for years.
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Félix Francisco Nebbia was born in Rosario, Santa Fe to Martha and Félix Nebbia (two sons of Italian immigrants), in 1948. His parents were struggling musicians, though during his early teens, Litto left secondary school to join a friend, keyboardist Ciro Fogliatta, in a band ("Wild Cats"). The duo moved to Buenos Aires in 1963, and lived hand-to-mouth in a Balvanera ward tenement. They appeared in a television show, Escala Musical, a number of times, and became regulars at a popular neighborhood recital hall, La Cueva.
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He returned to New Zealand after the war, setting up his own signwriting business in Christchurch, but while the business flourished, the stress became too much and he was advised to give it up. He then sold up in 1960 and relocated his family (wife Ethel ('Ett') (née Taberner) and their three daughters – Suzanne Jean, Wendy Wilks and Denise Kay) to their bach at Kaikoura. With only one motel in that town at the time, he bought some fishermen's cabins, which he let to tourists. For three years or so, the family lived hand-to-mouth on the earnings form the cabins, plus the occasional sale of a painting.
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