Word: trampe
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During the preparatory period. I wallowed in the dirt and filth; I was purposely kept unshaven and denied haircuts to the point where I was filthy as a tramp. I [was kept] under the constant surveillance of a guard who was never more than perhaps ten yards away, and who at night would awaken me at least hourly by shining his flashlight in my eyes until I woke up ... During the exhaustion phase. I was made to write continuously, over a period of about three weeks, from early morning until dark, always against a deadline, under pressure of two interrogators...
...under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make...
...ever painted. In the first eleven days of the show, 15 pictures were sold at about $1,500 apiece. All of them were bold scenes from La Boca, Buenos Aires' wretched port district where Quinquela grew up and still lives. On the canvases, he has transformed its rusty tramp steamers into gay red and green fleets, its waterfront toughs into noble-looking heroes...
...weekly book review section, and until recently (when his health gave way) also edited the editorial page. A graduate of Ohio State, Little broke in on the Cleveland Press, went to France in World War I as a swivel-chair sergeant, came home to a restless career as a tramp newspaperman. Recalls Little: "Some copyreader or some louse of an editor would get rough with my magnificent prose, and I'd feel in my pocket to see how much dough I had. If I had enough for a railroad ticket, I'd resent what he'd done...
...Baritone Eddy, his blond-tinted grey hair brushed to wavy perfection. When he began singing, the crowd knew for sure that he had not changed at all; his big voice had not lost a bit of its old boom, or, for that matter, its slight nasal tone. There was Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Rose Marie, I'll See You Again, At the Balalaika, Indian Love Call (with a pretty blonde, Gale Sherwood, dressed in an unlikely, scantie-type Indian costume). There was also, of course, the Eddy specialty, Short'nin' Bread. For this...