Word: tramp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million feet tramp-tramping through ankle-deep snow. Night coming on. Torches, banners, the roar of the Internationale from half a million throats. White breath & red noses. People stamping and shouting to keep warm. Men and women from everywhere-mostly Russians, but Tartars too, Uzbeks, Little Russians, White Russians, Tadjiks, Chinese students and a group of Communist literati from New York, just arrived but exulting with the boldest. Thus last week Moscow staged one of the largest, most impressive demonstrations in Soviet history, as her second, epochal Counter-Revolutionary Trial began (TIME...
Last week from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.) came new and astonishing light on the Tramp Athlete. Eleven members of the freshman football squad appointed a spokesman-Carrol Robinson of Salem, N. J., crack tackle-to present to Coach James Ebenezer Pixlee their demands: that the wages which they earned as janitors, watchmen, waiters be given to them for spending money, that their board and tuition to which their earnings are normally applied be given them gratis. Coach Pixlee, unable to meet their requests, was considerably embarrassed when the cream of his team walked...
...final echo of the military tramp of last week's welcome visitors will be swallowed up this afternoon when the Dartmouth Indians' war whoop fills the Stadium. It is always a pleasant sight to find the men from New Hampshire again in town with their pipe of peace. The tradition of the Dartmouth game is not new; but it is still young enough to stimulate plenty of enthusiasm on both sides...
...final blow has been dealt, and by none other than the American Legion, which has a number of methods quite remarkably its own of coming before the public eye. In witness whereof Boston is at this very moment reverberating to the martial (albeit slightly unsteady and irregular) tramp of feet, the blat of tubas, the rattle of canes (in Heu of musketry) and the clash of an indescribable array of colors. Her citizenry has the opportunity of feasting its eyes upon an unparalleled collection of 100 per cent Americans and hats. Admittedly not as many of these ardent militarists have...
Even the title of Robinson's latest poem has a tragic irony. Nightingale is the name of the piece's villain; the glory of the Nightingales comes to a sad end. As the poem opens, middleaged, destitute, half-starved Malory, onetime bacteriologist, now a tramp, is walking country roads towards the town of Sharon, on his way to an act he thinks Fate requires of him. In his pocket is the infinite wealth of a revolver. He is going to kill Nightingale, once his best friend, his onetime rival in love, his onetime benefactor, then his ruin...