Word: vagabonde
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...concluded, "The instant fame attained from the recent Sports Illustrated article, which highlighted the vagabond spirit of the team, should make recruiting a breeze...
...other was a guitar playing vagabond who once infested my Adams House suite for several weeks. He slammed chords out of his guitar at any hour, refusing to go to the music room because he claimed he lost his inspiration by the time he got there. I've heard he since converted to Buddhism, more lately to record-making and Capitalism. With their devotion these people might find something meaningful in Godspell. For the rest of us it's vacuous...
...spending has sent a huge amount of vagabond greenbacks roaming round the world; nobody is certain of the total, but estimates range from $60 billion to $80 billion. An excess of dollars, like an excess of bacon, drives down the price. The more so in this case as many of the people who hold the dollars have lost faith in their value. The dollar holders note that a long series of U.S. moves-taxes on purchases of foreign securities, for example, and controls on bank lending abroad-have failed to put America's international payments back into balance...
...College was informed that the humor magazine had gone bankrupt. The 23 to 2 victory over Lampy--in baseball, football, basketball, hockey and anything else--was already a tradition; Starting in 1925, the Confidential Guide to Harvard gave the students' view of courses, and the next year, the Vagabond, who is still wandering through Cambridge meandered into the paper. Victor O. Jones, whose Notes From the Back of an Envelope graced the editorial page of the Boston Globe for decades, worked with Thomas H. Eliot, the former Chancellor of Washington University, and George Weller '29, whose thoughts on The Crimson...
Died. Rudolf Friml, 92, prolific composer king of schmalzy, popular light opera in the 1920s (The Vagabond King, Rose-Marie, The Three Musketeers); in Hollywood. Trained in Prague as a classical pianist and composer, Friml moved to the U.S. in 1906 and within six years had written his first Broadway operetta. A master of the improbably plotted, swashbuckling romance, he eventually composed 30 major works that included a string of hit songs (Indian Love Call, Donkey Serenade). When Broadway tastes changed, Friml tried adapting his work to film, but with little success...