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...close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside, confident that the men in both institutions will celebrate the usual mysteries uninhibited by the "good-behavior" self-conciousness inspired by drill sergeant reception committees and the tramp of marching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOWN FROM THE HILLS | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...Francisco, John Coylson, tramp, was offended when arrested for cooking a stew in the big dipper of an idle steam shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California, tall Shakespearian scholar, onetime actor, chairman. Said Mr. Shortridge: "We shall treat everybody alike? the tramp and the millionaire. We care not whether he be clothed in rags or purple and fine linen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Cumana, Venezuela, last week, citizens smoked their evening cigarets along the water front, striving for a breath of cool air. A little tramp steamer, her name roughly painted out, chugged into the harbor, noisily dropped her mud hook. Small boats were put out, rowed ashore. Boxes and crates were landed on the beach. From Cumana's fort an officer watched for a few minutes till he saw the fat barrel of a machine gun lifted out of a crate. Then hastily he threw away his cigaret, sounded the alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Falke Filibuster | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Featured were oldtime Hippodrome names and numbers, including: Comedian De Wolf Hopper (appearing as wizard, interlocutor, Mephistopheles, Chinese Mage); Tramp-Comedian Joe Jackson and his disintegrating bicycle; ballets (Tiller, Rasch, Lenora) ; clowns, skaters, dogs, an elephant. Many of the tunes were written by Bandman Sousa, including the blaring, brassy march " 'Tis the Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Here and There | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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