Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tramp, tramp, tramp of thousands of feet...
...Visitors at the rate of 1,000 or more a day came to the White House to see the President. Taking precaution of his strength, he gave up trying to shake hands with all of them and allowed several hundreds just to tramp through his office and see him work...
...Story. Renard, lusting for chicken fricasee, disguises herself as a nun and attempts to make off with the Cock, but is foiled by the alertness of the Cat and the Goat, who frighten her away. Renard tries again, disguised as a tramp, and, with the lure of sweetmeats, almost gets her way with the Cock. She begins to pluck the screaming fowl when the Cat and the Goat again come to the rescue and dispatch the marauder, ending the piece with a dance of triumph...
James A. Reed, senior U. S. Senator from Missouri: "As I stood in the doorway of the Daugherty investigation committee room, a messenger boy trod on my toes. Said I: 'I'm tired of having you damn kids tramp on my toes!' Said the boy, just as hotly: "I'm no more of a damn kid than you are a damn...
...coal and iron to the ship yards is an appreciable factor, just as the nearness of timber to the New England harbors helped to make the old square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...