Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student at Washington's American University, Editor Bucke picketed the U.S. House restaurant because Negroes were barred from it. While a student at Boston University he disguised himself as a tramp, spent several days hobnobbing with panhandlers. One conclusion: "Many missions which supposedly were such great builders of Christian character were only rackets...
...character of the U.S. press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper...
...Free is as genuinely native as a buck-&-wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success has its 25-year-old choreographer in a state of amaze. Sharp-faced pint-sized Jerome...
...first: he moved directly from Columbia Law School to the stage. Frank, then a boy soprano at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas Church, later had one year of business administration at Cornell, a spell working for his father. He tried cowpunching in New Mexico, stoking coal on a tramp steamer, shooting professional pool. On March 11, 1914, he eloped from Manhattan to Hoboken with Alma Muller and "she's never left...
...plot included one tramp (Cagney) who turns out to have plenty on the ball, one lovable old lady who wins said tramp's friendship and aid in one balzing journalistic crusade against the forces of Evil in the town as personified by a crooked (-onely-don't-worrry-dear-reader-he-reforms-in-the-end-) politician, and his even crackeder cronies, one triangle (eternal), one father-and-son squabble, numerous fights (gun, fist, and umbrella), and, to add that necessary punch line, a gala torchlight parade to the local hoosegow...