Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Humble fishing smacks and rusty tramp steamers last week sailed with the Royal blessing. Centuries of service rendered the Nation in war and peace by commercial ships and fishing fleets were signalized by bringing these vast and wandering squadrons, like other able Empire services, under the honorary wing of the Royal family. The title of Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet was presented to the Prince of Wales...
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...Only a tramp knows how big your country is," Count Felix von Luckner told a capacity audience at the Harvard Union yesterday afternoon. "I travelled 21,000 miles to find your Buffalo Bill, and when I got to his house I was told he was in Germany with a circus...
...dressing room yesterday afternoon. "However, there are many other factors that help to draw large audiences. For instance it is remarkable what a difference an actor's makeup will create. You, know that negro who sang in the performance last week, with a high silk hat and tramp's clothing? Well, he didn't represent any thing particularly in those clothes, yet he got away big. Now they've been trying to get him to change his costume for two years, and yet they can't find any other clothing in which he'll be a success. One night...
This is the plot of The Circus. The little ridiculous tramp is Charlie Chaplin. It is necessary now, not to say that he is funny, but to say how funny he is. It is a case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused...