Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...
...title is taken from the bow of that slouchy tramp in which Eugene O'Neill set his crew of sailor men for the Moon of the Caribbees. It is a comprehensive title to cover that play and three of the group published in book form under the Caribbees title. Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone and The Long Voyage Home are the companion pieces. They are all sea stories, done in the early O'Neill style, when the first indications of Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape were stirring in his brain. Since the plays have been...
...more pride than a tramp; . . . no more moral sense than a wax figure; no more sex than a tape worm...
...sultry August afternoon, the denizens of Mexico City were startled by the clatter of horses and the tramp, tramp, tramp of feet. With curious eyes, they watched detachments of police, armed with shining Mauser rifles, surround Congressional Hall...
...done in the Chief Engineer's room of his various ships and was sandwiched in between long hours with engine pumps, port boilers, bilge rams. Now, he has left the sea and lives in Westport, Conn. Among his books: Casuals of the Sea, Aliens, Command, An Ocean Tramp...