Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Circus. A little ridiculous tramp, very hungry and without funds, was standing beside a pickpocket. The pickpocket grabbed from a rich man a watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket the little tramp at last became aware of the fat purse that he was carrying. Pleased, he walked over to a hot-dog stand and bought himself a sausage; then he looked at his new watch. The proper owner of watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property...
...when the public was torturing itself with the details of the men's suffering. But it is hard for the civilian to understand the way the cold, indeed, but efficient way the military machine functions at a time like this. If the men had foundered at sea in a tramp steamor, the event would not have received half a column. But because it was dramatic, and occurred in a submarine, it was a perfect opportunity for subjective citizens and obscure congressmen to assail the navy. Few there are who would advocate the abolition of the automobile to save pedestrians...
...Satyricon is an account of the wanderings and fantastic adventures of a coaple of tramp students whose lecheries, boozing, brawling, and generally disorderly conduct along the high roads of Italy are graphically recounted in the current slang of the period. Their activities are all charmingly debased and come under the main heads of alcoholic, criminal and amourous, and include almost constant indulgence in those pursuits which secured for two cities of biblical fame a bad reputation and a pyrotechnical destruction...
...general tenor of their minds. For no gathering of like size preserves the geniality of a football crowd, immediately let out of the stadium. Surprisingly enough there is comparatively little boisterousness. There is a composure which is almost marked enough to be termed bovine; there is content. The tramp of tens of thousands of shuffling feet, the clink of colas in the Salvation Army blanket, the dolorous wheeze of the organ man, the shouts of the game extras, the smell of popcorn and frankfurters--these are what the artist designates as local color. And the fact that the scene passes...
Tomlinson has been a fleet street newspaper man for a decade. Back in 1910 he accompanied an expedition to explore the further reaches of the Amazon. In the tramp steamer "The Capella", the party penetrated to the last thousand miles of the tropical river, which was the first time the feat had been accomplished. Tomlinson told the story in his "Sea and the Jungle", which appeared in 1910 and the first editions of which are now selling at $75 a copy...