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...Vagabond is carried away merely by thinking on the possible bliss of mellow afternoons and roistering evenings over the tables of the university pub. In the mild spring twilights, after a long stroll along the river, he would stride obliviously through the bustle of office-workers returning home, choose himself an obscure but well-placed table, order himself a pint of ale, and observe the passers-by with that careless insolence which is proper only to Vagabonds and dowagers. Or perhaps, driving in from a gay, day-long junketing in the newly green countryside, he and she would stop...
...tormented Henry Cabot Lodge. He smeared President Harding with mock sympathy. He tweaked and twitted President Coolidge. He first put in circulation the "dammed, drained and ditched" joke on Engineer Hoover. But his gibes were always in loud good humor and after a particularly spirited attack he would stroll off to a ball game arm-in-arm with Republican Leader Watson. Always the smart politician. Democrat Harrison played close to the Brown Derby in 1928, was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon...
There are other reasons, too. There is Phantom and the daily stroll about Cambridge. There is the almost traditional manner of mounting stairs, two steps at a time, and double quick. There is a vignette still vivid in the Vagabond's memory of a scholarly gentleman stepping out of the range of cameras. And a letter not yet grown musty in an undergraduate's drawer is a striking witness to the surprise of a student in an other college who had heard of the President's dining informally with undergraduates in Dunster House. Truly, the Vagabond is more interested...
...stroll with his mother in Paris, Samuel Insull Jr. beamed at reporters who surrounded him. "If a man bit a reporter that would be news," he said, "I wouldn't because I know I would break a tooth." Then, with an Insullting gesture (see cut) he went...
...been associate superintendent of schools. He never recovered completely from the prostate operation. Friends noticed that Dr. Baker grew increasingly depressed Last week he seemed drawn back to Washington. Pittsburgh police hunted for a day in Highland Park, where Dr. Baker had said he was going to stroll. But it was at "Quail Hill," the morning after the storm, that a pipe-line walker named Steve Sento found the sodden body, twelve-hours dead, pistol in hand and a bullet in the head...