Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgians remember with shivers the remorseless tramp, tramp of Kaiser Wilhelm's field-grey hordes, the death-belching thunder of Hohenzollern guns. One night last week the Belgian Cabinet sat up late, heard its veteran Foreign Minister, far-sighted Paul Hymans, fire a broadside of warnings...
...Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) is too ambitious to go back to his old job in a shoe factory. He wants to be a construction engineer and sets out to look for a job. His luck is bad. One night he finds himself in a lunchroom with a tramp who points a gun at the proprietor and orders Allen to open the cash register. When police arrive, they kill the tramp and hold Allen for robbery. He is sentenced to ten years at hard labor...
...vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
...financial. It was planned, for the time being, that each paper should continue to operate independently with no staff changes. Reported exchange of stock: two News shares for one share of Plain Dealer. The News, undistinguished as to format but published in a fine plant, has been called "the tramp that lives in a palace...
...Rivera and of exiled King Alfonso, whom he faintly, fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs, the tramp of feet, much blowing of bugles in the broad Plaza de Espana. There they found General Sanjurjo on horseback before the city hall. Behind him was a column of Civil Guards, infantry and medical corps. From his pocket the general withdrew a piece of paper, unfolded it, read: "I, Jose Sanjurjo...