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...gradually borne in on him that Harry Truman might be calling his bluff. Eaton was anxious to bring about negotiations; Moses was willing-on his terms. But Harry Truman was adamant. And now the impossible had happened. Lewis had actually been convicted of contempt. Horatius heard the tramp of the Tuscans' feet...
...gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such an impression that a tramp, passing her once in a rainstorm, called sympathetically: "It's sad weather for the likes o' thee...
...tramp le Dartmouth...
When the time came to elect a king, the boes looked to their professional ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...
Author McFee's memoir of his youth waddles along like an old tramp steamer, picking up a memory here, unloading a prejudice there, sleepily reviving the log of McFee's "first watch" (1906-11) as ship's engineer and as author. In retrospect, McFee isn't sure which of his two callings has meant more to him; he seems equally grateful that during the period of this piece he wrote most of Casuals of the Sea, and got his chief engineer's certificate. He also seems amazed at what a fine, steady chap young...