Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem the nation's Joint Chiefs of Staff, freshly returned from an inspection of U.S. bases in the Far East, had to face up to energetically. The nation needed defenses at home (e.g., radar screens and other precautions against surprise attacks by planes, submarines or even tramp steamers carrying H-bombs). The armed services, dangerously weakened by the Administration's foolish economy policies in national defense, still had to be built into a force capable of surviving the first blow and retaliating swiftly and strongly-even if it meant spending less money on social services that normally would...
...textile mill district, 45-year-old Socialist John Edwards launched his campaign with a rally of 3,000 vociferous supporters in King George's Hall. From now until election day, John Edwards will campaign from soapboxes at the mill gates and in the workers' canteens; he will tramp Blackburn's narrow streets in a steady house-to-house canvass, and he will make numberless speeches to street-corner gatherings from his loudspeaker...
...stories make dull reading today, but Orwell's has a mint freshness because his poverty, his sorry work mates, even the brain-deadening duties of his distasteful job were of vast interest to him. When the scene shifts to England, he is just as intently curious about flophouses, tramp argot and the personal histories of his down-and-out pals. There is the concern for the underdog and the compassion without sentimentality that soon became Orwell trademarks...
Funny as it is, the movie would be funnier if the scripters had not overworked their incidental gags at the expense of the best one: Kaye never really gets a chance to exploit the comic notion of the tramp who feels his oats as a big shot. The trouble may be that the picture tries too hard to keep Kaye sympathetic...