Word: vagabonde
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...Shrewd Vagabond...
...word and idea "vagabond"-lazy, casual, and (as he sings it) amorous in a far-off sort of way-has been curiously persistent in Vallee's technique, is almost the Vallee trade-mark-Vallée's vagabondia. His admirers may be surprised to discover from his self-revelations that his life has been anything but lazy, casual, or amorous. He ran away from school at 15, enlisted in the Navy. After that he helped in his father's store, ushered at the village theatre, bought himself a saxophone. Shrewd, he taught himself fine points of technique...
...appearance, pince-nez-ed, Author Locke likes dogs, children. He is married, has one adopted daughter. Fortnight ago Author Locke was seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other books: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Beloved Vagabond, Septimus, Simon the Jester, The Joyous Ad- ventures of Aristide Pujol, Stella Maris, The Fortunate Youth, Jaffery, The Rough Road, Ancestor Jorico...
Other good dance tunes: Puttin' on the Ritz and Singing a Vagabond Song (Victor), Do Ya' Love Me? and When I Am House-Keeping for You (Columbia), Keepin' Myself for You and Blue is the Night (Victor), Navy Blues and Romance (Brunswick), When a Woman Loves a Man and Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love (Victor...
...Vagabond King (Paramount). Francois Villon was a lean, bony, shrivelled man, with a sharp dark face and an upper lip pulled into permanent irony by a dagger slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this...