Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boys have told him that they go to college for athletics. Again the doubtful virtue of indefiniteness weakens the charge. Unless there is a considerable number of such examples, this is scarcely a cause for worry; and stern supervision of intercollegiate sports has to a great extent removed the tramp athlete from universities...
...show, as many women enjoy large dinner parties, sat up and preened their coats, or barked merrily. To stroll into this lowest floor, where the dogs were "benched" was like strolling into a rout or reception, as imagined by some satirist whose fancy was for the morbid & grotesque; a tramp would have died, surely & instantly, of fright...
...stopped walking at late twilight and went into the church. There were no lights on; no people were there to pray; the organ loft was empty. The tramp sat down and put his dirty finger on the keys, and there was music...
...Springfield, N. Y., William Morgan drove past the Methodist Episcopal church, heard organ music. William Morgan knew that no church service was scheduled for that hour, so he stopped his car, tiptoed into the church and peeked at the tramp who was playing hymns. Then William Morgan went off to find the minister of the church and a policeman...
When the three men came back, the church was silent again. They found the tramp lying in the organ loft, asleep, wrapped up in a uniform that some fake Santa Claus had worn for Christmas. They spoke to the tramp to wake him up, then arrested him for playing the church organ. He said that his name was William Nolte, that his age was 23, that he had been living in the church for a month, that he had once attended Sunday School there...