Word: tramp
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...gusty psychology of tramp life, the cruelty and the laughter, the denial of the lot of man to work -these are the themes. It is not a pretty play nor is its dialog courteously scented. It seems a true play, strong and sound. It is charged with the vigor of an engrossing humor...
...Limited Mail. In the old days about all you had to do was wreck a train and they called it a successful movie. About all they do in The Limited Mail is wreck a train, and one would scarcely call it a success. It is about a tramp who caught hold of life in large chunks and made a man of himself and became the engineer of The Limited Mail. The Mail Clerk and he were both in love with the same girl. Accordingly it was fitting that the clerk be killed and the engineer saved from the wreck...
...complete silence, except for the tramp, tramp, tramp of about one hundred thousand feet and the squeaking of an odd pair of shoes, a funeral procession several miles long wended its way through Vienna. In the hearse was the 21-year-old body of Josef Mohapel, slain by a gangster...
...that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...
Some time after May 5, the S.S. Pellegrini, big French tramp steamer, left her native waters. She slipped clumsily across the ocean, arrived, last week, at Rum Row. She was heavily laden. It may have been as much as 50,000 cases of liquor that she carried...