Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when one tires of the company of his fellow man and desires to study or meditate, he finds that the comparative isolation of his own room makes for this. He will not have a whole group of room-mates rushing in, nor will the tramp of many feet along the hall disturb him, for all of the rooms are singles or doubles and there are never more than four rooms on one floor of an entry...
When Mr. Roosevelt called tramp money hot money, his felicity of expression deserted him for once, yet at the same time he gave a graphic description of a type of money that is not only hot, but very apt to burn the fingers of American creditors. Tramp money will not stay put; it is a form of short term investment for foreigners, affording quick liquidation and till free, in spite of the Securities Exchange Commission, to move anywhere. When the President speaks of tramp money, or hot money, he does not fear a sudden withdrawal of foreign funds from...
Like the anticipation of a sizzling steak dinner after a tramp in the woods. I am looking forward to the delights of our Thursday night "March of Time," particularly in such a year as this...
...saying frankly: 'I have not yet figured what to use for money.' '' Average earned income in 1934 of the 541 members who reported was $4,445. One affluent member of 1911 paid an income tax on $125,000 a year. Another reported himself "a tramp," added, "I have not slept in a bed for five years." Of 16 men even their families knew nothing. Author Tunis concludes that most of the 88 who failed to respond to letters, telegrams and telephone calls are probably "failures," that, taken together with the failures who did answer, about...
...former satrap, General Chen Chi-tang, who had majestically taken "flight" to British Hongkong with his movable treasures. The exciting question was: Could even smart Chen have moved the enormous weight of $30,000,000 in "small money"? He was said to have moved it in chartered British tramp ships which had displayed the Japanese flag as the emblem most likely to insure them against molestation in Cantonese waters before they made good their getaway to Hongkong...