And the Houston Chronicle's article on the subject ends on an ominous (though alarmist) note:Smith, the panhandler with the swollen leg, warned that crime would skyrocket if the city cracked down.
There is also, however, a technical reason for the prevalence of the panhandler: willing to sit for the long exposures made with plate cameras, they made perfect models; and it is clear from the examples here that there is a dignity in their poses – nowhere more so than in the case of "Marmalade" Emma and Teddy Grimes (bottom far right).
There was a bag woman kipping in the empty Sports Book gambling area at the MGM at about 1 30am and the walkway between New York, New York and the MGM was littered with the fallen, the falling and the foulest-mouthed panhandler I have ever met.
McKellen, soon to follow the trail of The Hobbit in New Zealand, led an NT version of De Filippo's Napoli Milionaria, as a devious panhandler.
F. Murray Abraham as a panhandler who briefly becomes a suit is almost worth the price of admission.
The rest of the world's preference for Audubon birds was precisely what attracted him to the quadrupeds... Mentions his collection of books with bizarre titles and his Haydn Foundation for classical music... Tells how he bought a handmade sign from a homeless panhandler... "I want signs like this.
Tells about his son by Tehura, a drunkard and a panhandler.
When he does embrace that identity, it tends to be awkward, as when he told a meeting of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce last spring, "I don't think I've ever seen a Hispanic panhandler.
A bit later in the same tale, Kelman's panhandler complains, "Sometimes I think ya bastard ye I'm fucking skint and you're no".
Profile of Joseph Ferdinand Gould, Harvard graduate, hobo panhandler and writer of "An Oral History of Our Time".
As he walked away, I saw him pat a child on the head and then break into a run to catch up with a panhandler whom he was afraid the hotel detective would insult before he could give him a large sum of money.
