The son of Yemeni immigrants, he grew up street smart and aimless in the seedy Tenderloin district, an inveterate loafer, sponger, bungler and charmer.
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If he hadn't been an American and an in-law, he was the sort of character who would have fascinated Kipling: he was a boisterous but charming drinker, bankrupt, sponger, and tale-spinner.
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If your down-on-her-luck pal has been sleeping on your sofa for the past year and earned less than $4,050 while you've been mostly supporting her (or him), then you may be able to claim the sponger — er, friend — as a dependent and deduct up to $4,050 on your federal return, even though the two of you are not related at all.
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Acting as the first sponger of > the pivot gun during this bitter engagement, Read exhibited marked coolness > and good conduct and was highly recommended for his gallantry under fire by > his divisional officer.
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Eddie (John Ireland) is an AWOL American airman with an unfaithful actress wife (Gloria Grahame). The last man, 'Rave' Ravenscourt (Laurence Harvey), is a 'gentleman' sponger and a scoundrel with gambling debts and the unscrupulous leader who lures the other three. The film reaches a bloody climax at Heathrow Airport.
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Citation: > Served on board the U.S.S. Kearsarge when she destroyed the Alabama off > Cherbourg, France, 19 June 1864. Acting as sponger and loader of the 11-inch > pivot gun during the bitter engagement, Harrison exhibited marked coolness > and good conduct and was highly recommended for his gallantry under fire by > the divisional officer.
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Citation: > Served as seaman on board the U.S.S. Kearsarge when she destroyed the > Alabama off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. Acting as sponger of the No. 1 > gun during this bitter engagement, Lee exhibited marked coolness and good > conduct and was highly recommended for his gallantry under fire by the > divisional officer.
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Schnorrer of Poland in Leipzig, Germany From: Die Gartenlaube (1875) Schnorrer (שנאָרער; also spelled shnorrer) is a Yiddish term meaning "beggar" or "sponger".jewishencyclopedia.com – The word Schnorrer originally occurred in the German language to describe a freeloader who frequently asks for little things, like cigarettes or little sums of money, without offering a return.
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Mount O'Beirne is a mountain in the Continental Ranges on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It is Alberta's 59th most prominent mountain. It was named in 1918 by Arthur Oliver Wheeler after Eugene Francis O'Beirne, a "sponger and general pest" who in 1864 had attached himself to William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton and Walter Butler Cheadle's expedition over the Yellowhead Pass.
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In 1954 two major events changed Kavanagh's life. First, he sued The Leader for publishing a portrait of him as an alcoholic sponger. The highly skilled lawyer John A. Costello, acting in defence of The Leader, won the case when it came to trial. (Costello had been Attorney General of Ireland (1926–1932) and later became Taoiseach (1948–1951 and 1954–1957).
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"Rare coins, a Wan Li vase, and a ... violin which is eventually doused with varnish do not help make this tale dramatic or amusing. A sponger on his wife takes up collecting so he can cadge money and carry on with girls. This leads to murders, which Tecumseh Fox detects in hit-and-miss fashion."Barzun, Jacques and Taylor, Wendell Hertig.
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Citation: :Served on board the U.S.S. Fort Hindman during the engagement near Harrisonburg, La., 2 March 1864. Following a shellburst which mortally wounded the first sponger, who dropped the sponge out of the forecastle port, Molloy jumped out of the port to the forecastle, recovered the sponge and sponged and loaded the gun for the remainder of the action from his exposed position, despite the extreme danger to his person from the raking fire of enemy musketry.
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Fyodor Pavlovich, a 55-year-old "sponger" and buffoon, is the father of three sons—Dmitri, Ivan and Alexei—from two marriages. He is rumored to have also fathered an illegitimate son, Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, whom he employs as his servant. Fyodor Pavlovich takes no interest in any of his sons, who are, as a result, raised apart from each other and their father. The relationship between Fyodor and his adult sons drives much of the plot in the novel.
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Colorina (Fernanda) works in a nightclub as a prostitute with her great friend Lupita (Muñeca Montiel). Both arrive at the mansion of Luis Carlos invited by Ivan, a sponger who is brother-in-law of Luis Carlos Villamore. Colorina and Luis Carlos had met before and fall in love, but their relation is not well seen by the cold and calculating mother of Luis Carlos, Matilde. Diana, the wife of Luis Carlos, is terminally ill and can not have children.
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On June 19, 1864 he was serving as a Seaman on the sloop of war when she fought the commerce raider off Cherbourg, France. He was awarded his Medal of Honor for gallantry under fire while serving as the sponger of the ship's Number 1 gun. Lee didn't learn about his commendation until after he was discharged from the Navy, and said he had no idea what he had done during the battle to distinguish himself so highly. After the war, Lee took up residence in Oswego, New York.
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Although as a folk art the method itself may be centuries old, the two most commonly used terms are both of modern origin. Trencadís, a Catalan term that means 'chopped', is the name for this method as it was revived in early 20th century Catalan modernism, while pique assiette is a more general name for the technique that comes from the French language. In French, pique assiette ('plate thief') is a term for a scrounger or sponger, and thus as a name for this mosaic technique, it refers to the recycled or 'scrounged' nature of the materials.
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Parasitism in nature is a biological relationship in which one species lives on or in another, causing it harm. In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". According to the immunologist John Playfair, the term 'parasite' is distinctly derogatory in common usage, where a parasite is "a sponger, a lazy profiteer, a drain on society".
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Michael Cassidy (1837 – March 18, 1908) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born in 1837 in Ireland, Cassidy immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a landsman on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, Lackawanna engaged the at close range and Cassidy distinguished himself as the sponger on a gun crew.
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Evidence that it was well known before then comes in the poems of the Latin poet Horace, who alludes to it twice. Addressing a maladroit sponger called Scaeva in his Epistles, the poet counsels guarded speech for 'if the crow could have fed in silence, he would have had better fare, and much less of quarreling and of envy'.Book 1.17, lines 50-1 A satire on legacy-hunting includes the lines ::::::::A season’d Scrivener, bred in Office low, ::::::::Full often mocks, and dupes the gaping crow. The poem has generally been taken as a caution against listening to flatterers.
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For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864. Cassidy's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > Served on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort > Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. > Displaying great coolness and exemplary behavior as first sponger of a gun, > Cassidy, by his coolness under fire, received the applause of his officers > and the guncrew throughout the action which resulted in the capture of the > prize ram Tennessee and in the destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan. Cassidy died on March 18, 1908, at age 70 or 71 and was buried at Hampton National Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia.
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He was extremely well read, a talented photographer, a hypochondriac, a misanthrope, owner of a vast collection of pornography and with a reputation for unorthodox sexual behaviour which he did not bother to deny. The writer Richard Boston has stated that, "Whether or not he was a pleasant man, he was certainly a complex one, with a good deal of Boudu in him," and Renoir called Simon "a genius of an actor...Boudu was conceived primarily to make use of the genius of Michel Simon." Boston, p.36-37 Michel Simon called Boudu a pique-assiette, a sponger, while the writer Richard Boston rejected the idea that Boudu had much in common with the hippies of the late 1960s, as Pauline Kael had suggested.
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The critic of The Illustrated London News said that viewers would "shiver at a towering performance by Gielgud, as a Caliph with all the purring beauty and ruthlessness of a great golden leopard"."Another Arabian Night", The Illustrated London News, 2 January 1971, p. 22 In the theatre Gielgud directed Coward's Private Lives and Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife (both 1973, London and 1974, New York). His final production as a director was Pinero's The Gay Lord Quex (1975).Croall (2000), pp. 494–495 Gielgud continued his long stage association with Richardson in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1975), directed by Hall at the National. Richardson played Hirst, a prosperous but isolated and vulnerable author, and Gielgud was Spooner, a down-at-heel sponger and opportunist.
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Despite being described by Broadbent (1997) as an "unappealing man" and an "unconscionable self-interested sponger", Campbell appears to have had considerable knowledge of farming and was relatively highly regarded by the colonial government at the time. Campbell's knowledge and status are reflected in his appointments as a committee member of the Agricultural Society of NSW (1822) and later "Joint Commissioner of Crown Lands"(Austral Archaeology, 2000) Campbell's land grant was bounded by Eastern Creek in the west, in the north by the current Bungarribee Road (and its line west of Doonside Road), in the south by the Great Western Highway and in the east by the approximate line of Reservoir Road. Campbell erected a temporary residence on the high point of his land and began to clear and cultivate, with the help of 22 convict labourers.Godden Mackay Logan, 2007a, 9 An 1821 Colonial Secretary's record notes authorising John Campbell to select 22 convicts, 'having 80 acres cleared at Prospect under conditions of the notice of 17 November 1821.
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