His father, who scraped a living reselling rags and scraps of metal, was never emotionally supportive.
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Unlike Blaine, Barry is a son of working-class Queens; his father scraped a living maintaining the swimming pools of the wealthy.
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James resigned from the army and with Lillie moved to Scotland around 1890. They were married in St John the Baptist Church, Perth on 30 April 1890. In the spring of 1890 they moved to Edinburgh and lived at 22 West Port in the Grassmarket area. James scraped a living as a labourer and then as a manure carter with Edinburgh Corporation.
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Tristan Jones, whose real name was Arthur Jones, was born in 1929 in Liverpool. He was the illegitimate son of a working-class girl, and was brought up mainly in orphanages, with little real education. He joined the Royal Navy in 1946, after the end of World War II, and served for 14 years. Then he bought a sailboat, tried whiskey smuggling, and scraped a living sailing the Mediterranean Sea.
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When Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, Wurm initially remained in Germany to defend her constituents. However her property was confiscated and she became homeless, often spending the night on a train. She left Germany for Switzerland in May 1933, where she stayed with her sister, Josephine Cohn for eight months. She scraped a living by doing typing before moving to London on 3 February 1934 to visit her nephew Arthur Campbell.
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He then toured for seasons in Britain, South America and Asia. He first toured Australia with the company in 1929. However, the company collapsed after the death of Anna Pavlova in 1930, and he and his companion, the Russian-born Xenia Nikolayevna Krüger, née Smirnova (1903–1985), scraped a living by teaching children in makeshift studios in Paris, then Prague and Berlin. He married Krüger, a divorcee, on 14 October 1933 at the register office, Westminster, London.
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In 1938, he bought a one-way ticket to London and scraped a living from doing a variety of menial jobs, which includes selling coal, before he found skilled work as a cabinetmaker. He was then sent to a dock in Greenock to do essential war work. In 1942, Dimmock returned to London to pass his London Matriculation. After the war ended, Dimmock became involved with deaf clubs in the London area by writing for The Review, a London-based deaf magazine, and sports as he was secretary to the Croydon Deaf Club.
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Harry Dexter (1910-1973) was an English music critic and a composer of light music best known for his "Siciliano" of 1953. He was born in Sheffield and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree at Durham University. During World War II, whilst serving overseas as an army captain he composed a prize-winning symphony, but after the war he found himself without work and moved to London where he scraped a living "song plugging" and arranging for various publishers.Harry Dexter at Naxos Music, accessed 17 November 2010 During the 1950s, his lighter style of composition found favour with tastes in radio and television, particularly the BBC Light Programme.
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Bummer was a black-and-white Newfoundland or Newfoundland cross who established himself outside the saloon of Frederick Martin in 1860 and quickly proved to be an exceptional rat- killer. His ratting talent spared him the fate of the former owner of the territory, Bruno, who had been poisoned with strychnine shortly before Bummer's arrival. According to a 1901 retrospective published in the San Francisco Call, he had been owned by Ned Knight, a reporter for the Daily Alta California and had followed him to San Francisco from Petaluma. He scraped a living begging scraps from passers-by and the patrons of the saloon and other establishments along Montgomery Street.
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With the advent of the Great Depression, Derrick scraped a living from odd jobs—such as fixing bicycles and selling newspapers—to supplement his job as a baker. When in 1931, the Depression worsened, Derrick lost his bakery job and, with friends, headed by bicycle for the regional town of Berri, approximately away, in search of work. Jobs in Berri were hard to come by and Derrick and two friends spent the next few months living in a tent on the banks of the Murray River. When the annual Royal Adelaide Show opened that year, Derrick went to the boxing pavilion to accept a challenge of staying upright for three rounds with the ex-lightweight champion of Australia.
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