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...been known to an increasingly larger audience for the last ten years. Besides his various volumes of verse, he has published The Art of the Moving Picture, The Golden Book of Springfield, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty Going to the Sun (the description of a tramp through the Rockies with Stephen Graham...
...Fascinating Stranger is a tramp who steals a lawnmower, gets a platinum ring in a " swap," sells it for $750, buys an $18 lawnmower, which he returns to the astonished householder, and lives one glorious week on his money, content that for once he has enjoyed life...
More than half of these vessels are said to be part of the international system of two rival New York syndicates. Both of these organizations ship their liquor directly from England and Scotland in tramp steamers to St. Pierre, Miquelon. Here it is transshipped to three-masted Gloucester fishing smacks, carrying 2,000 cases each, which make up the Block Island squadron...
...condition, which took twelve hundred years to develop in Greek athletics, has arisen in our own "athletic period" in half a century. The tramp athlete, "fixing" of officials, pot hunters, were not unknown in Hellas. At last the professional trainer appeared and with him the training table and the specialist. To take care of them and the crowds who wanted to see them, huge stadiums were built. The whole system became commercialized...
...proselyting has gone among college athletes may be inferred from the attention paid in recent discussions to students who have moved from one college to another and who are designated by the question-begging name of "tramp athletes." Offhand a reasonable man might believe a tramp athlete the figment of a morbid imagination. He who hires a university athlete to come from another college must pay the way of that athlete for one year before he is eligible for intercollegiate athletics of any sort; and he must do this on the chance that at the end of this pauperized year...