Word: hoboed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hobo King Jeff Davis, arriving in Atlanta as a paying passenger on a train, announced that hoboes had stopped riding the rods. He explained: "There are plenty of jobs now, and all of us are needed. If kids see us riding the freights, they might try to imitate us and this would further weaken the nation's manpower...
Died. Jim Tully, 56, onetime pug, hobo and successful writer (during the '20s) of high-flavored, aggressively crude novels (Shanty Irish, Jarnegan, Beggars of Life); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
Divorce Revealed. Lady Edward Montagu, fortyish; from the Duke of Manchester's second son, gadabout Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, 41, who at one time or another has been deckhand, hobo, cab driver, hot-dog vendor, U.S. Army private; after nine years (no children); in Manhattan...
Efforts to locate Fred Husband, the author of the hobo plan, were at first unsuccessful due to the fact that Planner Husband is himself a tramp. The Vagrancy Committee tried to trace him with the help of the newspapers. Last week he was discovered in a fish & chips shop...
Beggar's Holiday has a full crew of mobsters, doublecrossers and madams; it skips from brothels to hobo jungles to clinks; but it lacks satiric or any other kind of momentum. It skitters between monkeyshines and melodrama, dilutes the satire, overdoes the sex. But it remains, by Broadway standards, refreshingly unconventional. While giving little to Beggar's Holiday, The Beggar's Opera perhaps took something vital away-the chance to start from scratch, to build homogeneously from the ground...