Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, promoter, has never qualified as a hobo, has ridden only 70 miles as "blind baggage." So, last week, announced one Charles Kruze of Philadelphia, onetime hobo, onetime president of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo sodality, at the Brotherhood's convention in Newark...
...Playwright Tully is not to be confused with Hobo Author Jim Tully (Beggars of Life, Circus Parade...
With increasing satisfaction Marion, Va., realizes that Sherwood Anderson is no longer the sinister, black-haired hobo whose face the advertisements used to show marked by unspeakable passions, by furrows and pouches suggesting unmentionable artistic orgies. Sherwood Anderson has become a plump, benign, grey-haired citizen, radiating goodwill. Unlike Sinclair Lewis, baiter of smalltownsmen, Sherwood Anderson has said: "I like people just as they are. I do not want to change...
...they quieted down, and, I firmly believe, went to sleep. They were the most human-sounding beasts I have ever met! All the grunts, sighs, groans, wheezes, and measured snores of human sleep were reproduced in a generous but exact replica. One snored so persistently that one of our hobo companions woke, swore sleepily, and with a stick rapped the offender into startled wakefulness and silence. Perhaps some of your other subscribers have had similar first-hand experience...
Here is a realistic reel. The hobo types might easily have been friends of onetime-hobo Tully on the road. Wallace Beery,* who can put more lasciviousness into the simultaneous lifting of eyebrow and stroking of whiskers than most cinemactors can in 500 feet of ponderous leering, has been permitted to graduate from the oaf class into the wider world of characterization. Louise Brooks, as usual, is decorative, never decorous. Richard Arlen does honestly the flaming-tempered youth...