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Word: hobo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also present at Loon Lake are Bennett's wife Lucinda, a world-famous aviator, and Warren Penfield, a drunken poet whom she keeps on as a pet and confidant. And an uninvited guest arrives: a young hobo named Joe, who wanders onto Bennett's property and is nearly killed by a pack of vicious dogs. As he recuperates, a young woman employee on the estate explains his accident: "Those are wild-running, those dogs. It's the fault of the people who own them and can't feed them any more. And then they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Nightmare and the Dream | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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