Word: matt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford and London Universities. With Lovelock, Bonthron has come out on top only once in four races. At Princeton in 1933 Lovelock lowered the world record to 4 min., 7.6 sec. Thereupon Cunningham at Princeton last year dropped it to 4 min., 6.7 sec. Princeton's enthusiastic Coach Matt Geis looked to Lovelock to do something even more extraordinary last week. "Bonthron and I expect he will be able to do 4:05," said...
...Matt grew up in New York and might have settled down there: he had a girl and a job on a newspaper delivery truck. But he wanted to see some of the country before he got too old, so he had a run-in with the union, said good-by to his girl, and went out to finish his education on the road. Slowly he hoboed his way to California, taking jobs by the way when he felt like it or had to. Before he got there he saw his pal cut in two by a freight car. After...
When the U. S. entered the War Matt enlisted. He came home two years later cured of glory and minus a thumb-joint, to find his wife and his job better than ever. In the post-War building boom he was paid the union rates of $18.75 a day, got the idea that labor was king and a bricklayer the aristocrat of labor. He bought a house, a car, a radio (all on in-stallments), joined the Elks; his wife began to play bridge and put on other airs. Because he felt so prosperous Matt thought he would knock...
...crash caught Matt with his pants down. Soon there was no work for aristocrats of labor. Puzzled, angry, discouraged, Matt had a final quarrel with his wife, a bust-up with the local of his union, and took to the road again. This time it was not so much fun as when he was younger. He wandered all over the country, taking any job he could get, bumming most of the time, gradually completing his education. Once, with another desperate bum, he held up a gas station, an A. & P. store. But Matt did not become a criminal: adversity...
...native of Brooklyn, Robert Whitcomb, 32, comes from "good stock, Yankee Americans" with a dash of Dutch. He has studied forestry, worked in a lumberyard; been a bank-runner, newshawk on a country weekly; hoboed in every State but Idaho. On a hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb...