Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armyists tramp lustily through the streets, Hindus is forced to contrast their robust health, good, clean uniforms, and strong shoes with the dark, patched garb of the proletariat. However, though trying his best to achieve impartiality, the author cannot avoid partisanship any more than all the other commentators who have flooded Russia and regurgitated their findings to us. Throughout the book Hindus impresses upon the reader his own firm conviction that despite all difficulties and whatever the cost, the Revolution will sweep on, brushing from its path all impediments, crushing all opposition. "The Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea...
...Tramp, tramp, tramp 150 Saxon theological students marched into town, brown uniformed and carrying complete Army equipment, even campaign knapsacks. Wags called them "God's New Storm Troops." Newly enrolled, they had been sent by onetime Corporal Adolf Hitler as a guard of honor for his leather-lunged friend, onetime Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. recently elected Evangelical Bishop of the State of Prussia (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week Dr. Müller was about to mold what amounted to a new German Evangelical Church. He wanted no trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken...
Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years...
...preposterous old woman from Boston (where Without Music should be banned) who goes to Egypt and allows herself to be waylaid by an ostrich-lead decadent sex lives. Characteristically deplorable is the case of Clarissa the Flea who traveled from Vera Cruz to New York on an old tramp. Spanish and nervous, she had no difficulty in working her way into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior. As for Clarissa, she joined the flea circus, made a trip...