Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although not directly in the employ of the advertising department of the Bermuda Travel Burean, the Vagabond has no scruples against voicing a hope that not a few of those who have faithfully followed him from lecture to lecture this fall will join the old stowaway in welcoming the dawn of a new year in that fair isle of liberty which lies somewhere to the southeast. For with all the wisdom and foresight of three wise men the Vagabond is closing up his quarters in the Lowell House construction shack and leaving Cambridge for the festive season. All of which...
...safety's sake, no advance news was given of the route that the King and Queen would take in their ride from Quirinal Palace to Vatican Palace. The huge oval of St. Peter's Square was kept free of spectators. From dawn on the day appointed, crowds of pious, enthusiastic Romans jammed the sidewalks of every street through which the royal pair could possibly pass, whiled away the long hours playing lottery games. Enterprising peddlers did a rushing business selling envelopes containing numbers shrewdly dubbed the "favorites" of the Pope, the King, the Queen. Many a Roman policeman...
From the far field of a war that was never a war returned to the U. S. last week 75 warriors?each in a flag-draped wooden box. Twenty-nine of them were nameless. Icy cold blew the dawn wind as the S. S. President Roosevelt churned slowly up New York harbor, but a balmy breeze it was compared to the blasts of the North Russian winter of 1918-19 when these U. S. soldiers died fighting the Red Army. After eleven years and by dint of diligent search by the Veterans of Foreign Wars their bodies had been exhumed...
...bustle of the early dawn this morning the Vagabond completed his moving and found himself installed once more within four walls. His new residence is perhaps not so spacious as his last, but the Vagabond feels that quarters in the cupola of the little construction house in the center of Lowell House are at least strategic...
...about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael Curley came with his son to kneel beside the shrine. Last week the estimated attendance...