Word: hoboes
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...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...
...time, Rumanian-born Ely Culbertson has been a young Russian revolutionary, an intellectual hobo, a student at Geneva, and an author (The Strange Lives of One Man, 1940). Last week he dictated furiously on his new book, intent on his own version of what the future should be. Some 22% of the army would be used as the first weapon of defense for any country attacked...
Smart editors exploited young Seabrook's flair for abnormality. For them he covered deaths, murders, freaks, women bandits, gruesome accidents. Bohemian society was charmed by the thwarted, dark-haired man who shambled about like a hobo, was chummy with Arab sheiks, dined with African cannibals, plunged ecstatically into Haitian voodoo...
...over the U.S. movie theaters had their lobbies piled high with more free-admission junk. Churches and women's clubs competed for city prizes. The Hobo News scrapped a two-ton press...
...Read merrily the "Doughboy Dictionary" provided by a London paper, supposedly "interpreting" new U.S. slang to the British. Some definitions were correct. Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer...