Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tramp, tramp, tramp for the ladies, as they march everywhere they go--to classes, to meals, and to exercise. Their discipline and program will be similar to that of the Naval School in the Yard, and those gentlemen will have to learn to salute the officerettes, who are technically the exact equal of men in similar rank...
Vying with Jester, Pegasus and Mickey Sullivan for local literary honors, a group of harried and hurried newshawks nightly tramp the interesting by-paths of University life gleaning the facts and features that lie in finished form on your doorstep at six o'clock every morning...
...Ditmars, 65, best-known snake man in the U.S.; in Manhattan. Successful popularizer of herpetology, entomology (Snakes of the World, Thrills of a Naturalist's Quest), he was Curator of Reptiles at The Bronx Zoo from 1899 until last January. Died. Joseph Francis Jiranek, 69 ("Joe Jackson, the tramp cyclist"); of a heart attack; in the wings of Manhattan's Roxy Theater...
Following the race the Trumbull manager claimed that his charges, who are used to contesting the right of way with tramp steamers in New Haven harbor, had thought that they were racing a nautical mile, which is several hundred yards longer than the usual landlubber's measure...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...