Word: tramp
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...Then there was a tramp of feet in the hall outside the room. Stewguts slapped down the pointer and hurriedly erased the last of the flowers. Suddenly she took her sister's face in both of her hands, and, bending, gently kissed the top of her head. As the hall door opened with a burst of voices, Stewguts silently closed the cloakroom door behind her and fled...
...wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder; and in Channel Firing, the dead, stirred by great noises, rise from their graves only to be reassured by. God: "It's gunnery practise out at sea / Just as before you went below...
Lena Home Sings (M-G-M). Eight sides (Can't Help Lovin' That Man, Where or When, 'Deed I Do, I've Got the World on a String, Is It Always like This, The Lady Is a Tramp, Love of My Life, Sometimes I'm Happy), some from movie sound tracks, all delivered in Songstress Home's customary buttery style...
Seldom was O'Neill more vividly theater-minded than at the start of Anna, where his bleary old barge captain excitedly awaits the daughter he hasn't seen since her childhood; and Anna slouches in at last, a tired tramp. But having beautifully set the table, O'Neill brings on chunks of the crudest realistic black bread, cups of the rawest romantic wine. After father meets daughter, Boy-in a sense-Meets Girl. Loving a wild Irish stoker. Anna must alienate him by confessing her past. But there is, if no assurance of happiness, at least...
...book of short stories (The Blue Negro), and three nonfiction works (Red Storm over Asia, The Fathers of the Western Church, The Marshall Story). And Author Payne shows no signs of slowing up. He has eight more books in the works at the moment. One, a study of the tramp created by Charlie Chaplin, is finished and delivered to the publisher. Among the others are a life of Christ, a travel book about the U.S., a history of Western man, and a "study of France during several decades...