Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lead toward the nomination was the recent spread of unfavorable stories about his health. He could not stand four years in the White House, said his opponents. In the summer of 1921 Mr. Roosevelt was at his camp in New Brunswick, Canada. After a hard cross-country tramp, he went swimming in the icy Bay of Fundy. Exhausted, he, aged 39, was stricken with infantile paralysis. In 72 hr. his body was dead from the waist down. His physician told him he would never walk again. But he began to try, first on crutches. At Warm Springs, Ga. he found...
...hours there, reading, swimming, and basking in the sun. It might even turn into a "nudist colony"; then Yale would have something besides "architecture" for which it could be discussed all over the United States. And in the winter there would be an opportunity to skate and ski and tramp through the woods. It is really enjoyable at times to go off into the country, cook one's own food, sleep out of doors, all with a minimum of hardship...
...that he finds himself admired by his victims and falls in love with one of them. The blackmailer is in a quandary trying to decide whether to reform himself or to disillusion his inamorata. Convinced that reformation is impossible, he blackmails the girl, sails for South Africa on a tramp steamer...
...Epicureans and Cyrenaics of antiquity--namely, that nothing abides but all things flow so why should one thing matter more than another. It is no longer tenable, however, in the present day, where life cannot be experienced as a whole nor taken as it comes by anyone but a tramp or a young man, and where certain forms of experience must be selected and cultivated to the exclusion of others...
BRYAN STINSON, tramp athlete and professional football player, through the generosity of an alumnus is brought to Cheltenham University to "get an education." He naturally becomes the football star of the college, receives all the class offices, is the idol of sorority girls, and is admired by everyone as being a "real man." After he has given his all for his college in the final game of his senior year the story of his professionalism leaks out but is successfully covered up. Stinson, however, confesses later that he is a professional, resigns from his college responsibilities...