Word: bum
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...girl, freer and less muddle-headed than the man, realizes that she must fight her own battles alone. An exciting train wreck points and symbolizes their situation. The man finds himself standing alone beside the twisted steel of a shattered locomotive. He wanders the world and becomes a bum while the girl he loves makes her way and becomes a famous actress. They meet again. He is implicated in a crime in Union Square. He escapes to her apartment over the roof tops. And at the end the man and woman stand alone among stars, facing an unknown destiny...
Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...
...instance, in Africa. Beside him grows his cousin, a dope fiend and a very unpleasant individual. Out comes the girl, in love with the latter. Suicides, hypnotism and a flood are employed to solve the somewhat reminiscent situation. Mr. Kirkwood plays a double part of the hero and the bum. Anna Q. Nilsson is the girl...
...during the summer, Lief Ericson's hotel is crowded. Lief Ericson's hotel, you know, is in Battery Park; named, of course, from the statue of the Viking in the lobby. And along lower Broadway the poor devils 'bum' for coffee and beans...
...alcoholic beverages and, as the result, lay yourself open to the use of "bum booze...