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...This is a word that might be spoken on the stage in so frank and veristic a production as The Front Page, but uttered at a decent dinner table it would impel a Victorian butler to practice on the loose-lipped guest what is technically known as the bum's rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Hallelujah, I'm a bum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Job Reserve | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Hallelujah, bum again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Job Reserve | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...would care to hear what the four million buy, listen to THE BUM SONG-HALLELUJAH I'M A BUM. Garton's, a store in the tougher regions of Boston has sold better than a thousand of them to date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

...York, Pa., one Joseph Hantz, bum, was arrested for trespassing. Hearing of this arrest, L. D. Hantz, Assemblyman, no relative but proud of the name of Hantz, went to court to plead for Joseph. When his pleas were successful, proud Assemblyman Hantz gave slouching Bum Hantz the price of his fine together with a oneway ticket to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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