Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet of pure Nordic and no friend of Adolf Hitler is Shipping Tycoon Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, now for the third time Premier of Norway, the world's No. 4 nation in tramp shipping...
...Tramp, tramp-the thick-soled, high-button shoes of Norwegian Deputies carried them into the Nobel Institute last week. Some of them wept large, mild Norwegian tears last year when Premier Mowinckel announced that Norway accepted the sentence of the World Court which took from her East Greenland, gave it to Denmark (TIME, April 17, 1933). For this act of Christian resignation, most Norwegians think, Premier Mowinckel ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead last week Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was charged with the chore of presenting the 1934 Peace Prize to a Briton who has done his best...
...speech from the Throne, George V ran rapidly over his Government's desire to do something for tramp steamers, herring, housing, agriculture and World Peace. ''Confidence and enterprise," declared the King-Emperor in his firm, resonant voice, ''has enabled this country to take the lead in world recovery...
...vivid healthy parallel of the true commedia dell' arte. Like the commedia, the Burlesque Show is extemporaneous, its libretto an assembly of long-remembered "bits" that have never been formally written down. Like the commedia, Burlesque has developed a cast of traditional characters with formalized costumes. The tramp, the Jew, the policeman, the soubrette and the straight man are as persistently unvarying as Harlequin, Pierrot, Columbine and the Captain were 250 years ago. Like the commedia, Burlesque is a theatre of and for the people, cheap, artless and dirty. But, unlike the vanished commedia, Burlesque has continued its raffish...
...another until from its narrow confines one sees the interplay of mighty offstage forces. This is the adventurous and highly successful technique Author Reginald Berkley and Director Henry King have used in presenting the adventures of Marie Galante (Ketti Gallian), a French girl shanghaied by the captain of a tramp steamer to whom she was delivering a telegram. Reaching Panama, she is filled with only one idea-the determination to get home again-and through her tiny, personal crisis, as she seeks help from one man after another in the Canal Zone, is gradually revealed the gargantuan plot...