Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Gestapo Boss Pierre Bony was caught by patriots. He was disguised as a hobo. With him was his aide, Henry La Font, disguised as a hired farm hand...
Died. Harold Bell Wright, 72, master of the simple, sentimental, best-selling novel; in La Jolla, Calif. Farm hand, hobo, artist, house painter, lastly preacher, Wright began his writing career in 1899 after a rival clergyman convinced him that his sermons should be published, shortly turned his talents to sugaring the moralistic pill with mystery, intrigue, romance. For 21 novels (15 movies), his manly men and womanly women fought cleanly, loved truly against a backdrop of raptly described scenic grandeur. The two most famed novels: The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), 1,250,000 copies; The Winning of Barbara Worth...
Jimmy Savo had articles in both Vogue and Hobo News. Wrote the Italian castle-owning comedian in Vogue: "It is when I look at the map of Italy that I am sad, thinking of the poor mythical people living there in the little town within the walls of my castle." For the Hobo News the classically baggy and disheveled Savo explained: "My suit['s] . . . biggest advantage is that I can turn it into a night kimono after...
Died. Oscar Ameringer (rhymes with am a dinger), 73, beloved longtime laborite, Oklahoma City editor of the American Guardian (1931-41); after a long illness; in Oklahoma City. Ameringer ran away from German military service in 1886, tended bar in New York, learned English from a hobo, was Ted Lewis' first music teacher, painted Ohio farmers' portraits, cheerfully wrecked his career as an insurance salesman to garner 103 votes as 1903 Socialist candidate for mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Ameringer's Guardian had some 40,000 readers who agreed that modern civilization is "a bunch of naked blind...
...story, which manages to be popular and literate at the same time, tells of the efforts of a gallant old lady of reduced means (Grace George) to fight the local political octopus (Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those...