Word: hobos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honolulu, Hawaii Hobo Harrington...
...college student's father gloomed in Chicago last week. He was James J. Harrington, rich real estate broker. His son James J. Jr., 20, had been suspended from Northwestern University as a ringleader in a "Hobo Day" riot. Said Father Harrington: "If Jack is out of school, as he seems to be, he will have to go to work. He can stay at home if he wants to. but he'll have to pay board. I'm through supporting him." A $3000 automobile he had given his son was to be sold. Jack, said he, had been a fine...
...fast-moving Rock Island freight train near Martell, Neb., Hobo Sam Wilson walked in his sleep, walked through the door of a box car, landed on his feet...
...Neill by his first wife (Kathleen Jenkins, now Mrs. George Pitt-Smith) ; and Elizabeth Green of Forest Hills, L. I.; secretly, three weeks ago; in Long Island City, N. Y. Unlike his father, who left Princeton at the end of his freshman year (1907) to become a hobo, O'Neill Jr. has gained distinction in col- lege, was tapped last May for Skull & Bones, won the Winthrop Prize for his scholarly acquaintance with Greek and Latin poetry (TIME, June 8). A poet of some campus repute, he has published verses in the Yale Helicon, undergraduate monthly. After the wedding...
...Terry Barberlit, onetime hobo, circus-pegger, doughboy, sailor, anarchist, con man, all-time sensationalist and wanderer of the world, was 56 and looked older until you got in a fight with him. Terry was resting from his labors by peddling snake oil medicine in country villages when he ran into Ruth, a young garage-owning widow with a viperish tongue. She liked him more than he liked her. She asked him over for a drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted...