Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tramp, tramp, clump, clump?pure chance brought a marching column of revolutionary troops abreast of the wedding whoopee. Tousled and valiant, bridegroom and bride were standing off their tipsy tormentors. To one hilarious wedding guest, possessor of a seven-shot pistol, the glorious moment clearly demanded noise. Into the air he blazed what sounded like a fusillade?bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...
Attorney General Mitchell, No. 4. was delayed in getting away by the new program of .Prohibition enforcement transferred to his Department of Justice. Soon he will depart for White Bear Lake. Minn. to fish, sail, swim, shoot, tramp, play amateur cineman, shoot good golf...
...good "stiff" (man). Washington police prepared for an influx of hoboes at the funeral last week in All Souls' Unitarian Church (whence William Howard Taft was buried). After the services the body was to be cremated and sent on to the family home at St. Louis. Only one tramp, and he but a nominal one, was there-Harry W. Johannes Jr. of Baltimore, representing the idealistic International Brotherhood Welfare Association. He would not enter the church, remained outdoors, distributing copies of The Hobo News. The only funeral eulogy was a phrase from Matthew:-"I was an hungered...
...follows : Born: at Osceola, Iowa, Sept. 16, 1858. Start in life: a printer's devil. Career: aged 13, he went to work in a printshop at Glenwood, Iowa. He went to public school, worked his way through Western Collegiate Institute, attended Iowa College of Law. He became a tramp printer, a wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave him one son, Findley-for the past five years financial adviser...
Last week one Dewey Ede, tramp, told the Lancaster, Pa. police that he had bunked overnight with a man answering the description of the maniac. The man had said: "They call me the 3X slayer. . . . Now that my mission has been completed I will head for Harrisburg and then to New Orleans and take a boat back to the old country...