Word: tramp
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...sense of blockaded lives. It is a dissatisfaction that very often leaps to life through words that have edge and ring true, among people who are disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant, is cared for by a young homosexual who moves in with her, and at the end is left alone to have her baby...
...discloses that the aging Chaplin is just as eccentric as ever: "Such a contradiction. I always have to carry a large supply of loose change when we go out-to do the tipping. And then he'll go off and buy me an expensive car!" Sometimes the little tramp of the old silent films is equally confusing to his children: "When Victoria saw her first Charlie Chaplin movie, she asked, 'Was that funny little man my grandfather...
...Victory ships, 500,000 Americans will land in Europe this summer in the greatest tourist invasion in history. With curiosity and half a billion in cash, they will wander from the all-night-sun Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle, to the stoned isles of the Aegean. Some will tramp through cathedrals, others will look for the high life, and many will exhaust themselves trying to combine some of both. But Americans in Europe in 1960 are in for some surprises...
...Fairmont State College, led by talented, pompadoured Music Major Tom Mustachio, 18, at the piano. The trio, which plays at college and fraternity dances and at small clubs ($40 a night) in the Fairmont area, offered cool jazz arrangements such as Misty and The Lady Is a Tramp, was rewarded with an engagement at Chicago's Blue Note...
...your Nov. 2 issue is commendably excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent to Jay Gould for $30,000, the last stick...