Word: tramps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golf combine, led by Ace Cordingley, will tramp the links with the Rhode Island State sextet tomorrow afternoon, while the Crimson nine will meet B.U. at Riverside. Saturday, the Stahlmen play their first Big Three game at Princeton on the Tigers' field...
...Within, The Name of Action, Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent), combining tense narrative and limbo-like atmosphere. In The Labyrinthine Ways he finds an almost ideal character for his talents: the last fugitive priest in a hypothetical Red-ruled Mexico. Small, shabby, bad-toothed, alternately disguised as tramp or peon, he cunningly eludes a fanatic young police lieutenant, ditches a burrlike stool pigeon, at last walks deliberately into a trap when he is summoned to hear the confession of a dying gringo bandit...
When Dean Landis speaks on administrative law in Langdell Hall of an evening, not only do young lawyers from Chelsea and East Cambridge tramp in to bear him, but the whole country knows that an expert, a former head of the SEC, is talking. Last night he tore into the Logan Bill, now in Congress, which would practically emasculate agencies like the AAA, NLRB, and SEC. It is a highly technical point--this question of what the powers of such special agencies should be--but it is fundamental to the whole philosophy of the New Deal; and the Logan Bill...
...Passenger to Bali (by Ellis St. Joseph) is a symbolical melodrama. It concerns a scoundrelly demagogue, "a dictator in search of a country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...
After three years as society reporter and cinema critic on a London newspaper, she at last found her first really satisfying activity when she threw up the job to travel with circuses, as publicity woman. Between tours she junketed on a Portuguese tramp steamer with a cargo of wild animals and a mad captain. She also got mixed up with a snaggletoothed, hophead Chicago gangster named Kid Spider, who proposed marriage and got her in the bad books of Scotland Yard...