Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost from the start Hackett and his companion, Argentine Lieut. Jorge Julio Mottet, circled traps which had claimed the lives of at least 20 explorers since the peak was first climbed (by a Swiss guide named Mattias Zurbriggen) in 1897. After a tramp through desert-like heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack...
...novelist's direction in the process. Neil Miller, his hero and narrator, is a cynical ex-hobo (Newhouse rode the rods in his day, too) who works in a New York publishing house; his aim is to save $1,000 and escape from it all on a tramp steamer. Larry, the publisher, is a serious, decent, do-gooding young millionaire who wants to put out good books but is completely dominated by his Communist staff...
...tramp around there day after day," he says, "looking for something to paint. Mood is what I'm after. I go through hell to get a good subject, but once I do I'm happy because it's always something I feel close...
Dartmouth doesn't tramp into the Stadium for two more days, but the Varsity was building a welcome bonfire yesterday in its two-and-a-half hour practice behind the fences and under the lights on Soldier Field...
...Julia (Greer Garson), a hoy-de-hoyden of London's music halls, marries a landed gent (Walter Pidgeon). They break up before long and, for their child's sake, Julia nobly awards the father 100% custody. The years go by, and Julia, now a middle-aging tramp, gets an invitation to her daughter's posh wedding...