Word: vagabonde
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...Vagabond has ever been perplexed and a trifle annoyed by the reverence in which mankind holds the might and majesty of the law. By definition he is a lawless fellow. Not one who goes about with an evil smirk doing all manner of evil, but merely one whose life is bounded by no laws. He walks where he lists and he talks when he lists. It is therefore difficult for him to understand the idle gossip which he continually hears about "law and order." He has seen and heard many evidences of the power of the law. A drunken, riotous...
Today the Vagabond hopes to set at rest all these questionings. He is going to Harvard 3 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor McIlwain on the background of the English Constitution. Of course all his reservations can not be answered, but Professor MeIlwain is, like Kipling's wrecked seaman a "man of infinite resource and sagacity," and he will do much to explain the beginnings and development...
...term bill. A bill which included the outrageous addition of rent for the Greek Common Room in Adams House of which he has been the sole occupant during the current season. However the latest and by far the most serious situation, as it is entirely a matter of the Vagabond's personal cosmology, centers in and about the anti-macassar atmosphere of Grays 18, home of history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last met with a situation with which he is utterly unable to cope. He has run headlong into a trap masked with the deceptive laurels...
These phantoms appear to be led by one Plato, a philosopher of parts, and one of the world's Great Minds, as the Vagabond has heard. And Plato it is, who is the direct cause of the Nomad' discomfiture...
Happening on a discussion of furniture the Vagabond read further, only to discover that his one Chippendale was not an original but only a distorted image of the Idea of Chippendale. It was too much. The doctrine was dangerous; a threat to every property owner in the state, and a direct challenge to every principle of interior decoration which the Vagabond had gleaned through the open windows of Fogg on a warm spring afternoon...