Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving through Delaware at night this summer and find the highways glimmering with bobbing lights, do not mistake them for fireflies. They will be pedestrians. Last week Governor Clayton Douglass Buck signed a bill making it a misdemeanor for a citizen to tramp the highways after dark unlit by flashlight or lantern...
Last week dozens of millions of newspaper-tourists were permitted to tramp freely through, over and around the House of Morgan. Most of them, as ignorant of finance as they are of art, knew little more when the trip was over than when it began. But many thousands-and especially those who were themselves minor financiers- were able for the first time to put together a coherent and fairly complete account of what has been the greatest and most legendary private business of modern times...
After three years of exile de Pinedo, 43, believed himself in line for promotion last autumn "to the highest possible military air rank." Instead he was retired, put on reserve. In January he went to the U. S. with an idea for an aerial "tramp" freight service around the world in the southern hemisphere. Last week he popped up in Manhattan where he had been going under the name of "Mr. Smith." He had a new plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia...
Readers who gobbled Jan Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
Thus last week in Nanking, China's capital, spoke Foreign Minister Lo Wenkan with appropriate frenzy, pardonable hyperbole. Nearly all the 400 million Chinese felt as strongly as Mr. Lo that China must resist Japan's new offensive to seize Jehol.* Meantime tramp, tramp, relentlessly down from Manchuria pressed Japanese soldiers numbering 60,000 at most. They were reinforced by 40,000 Manchurian (Chinese) mercenaries, but their weapons were those of the Machine Age. Tensely China, the world's most populous nation, quivered between ardor and despair...