Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patient Brown tried to annoy the doctors as much as their elaborate, cheerful treatment annoyed him. But he enjoyed his ''diverting and interesting" companions. "General Foch" amused him especially. It was fun, at a safe distance, teasing the surly ones with such remarks as: "You big lazy bum, why don't you go home and go to work?" In time he noticed nothing particularly "goofy" about any of them. It was the intrusion of sane outsiders on Visitors' Day that brought back a depressing sense of something wrong...
...news in the current News warns the fraternity to stay out of the South now that chain gangs are out on the roads; felicitates Chicago's Billy Whiskers on his release from a Florida work camp; recounts that Smokehouse Eddie is vacationing in Pittsburgh; records that Big Baby Bum has now set his initials on the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific...
...disgust of discriminating undergraduates out on a holiday an array of pitiably unorganized politicians and women's leagues marked time with hoboes and urchins. Boy Scouts marched better than the National Guard; sound effects went on the bum, and, to cap it all, a local merchant shocked Legionnaires by flying his flag upside down...
...closing let me say that no well informed bum could fail to read TIME. It ranks along with a good Mulligan stew and you know how good that is-or do you? ROBERT BRUCE SHORT...
...this able dramatization of Britain's second royal abdication,* observed famed Liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst on the revival's first night: "It's great, and very appropriate to some recent events in England. Evans makes you sympathetic to a slobby loafing bum of a king when you ought to be against...