Word: vagabonde
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Whimsical, perverse, doubtful Vag has been the wry, yet sometimes sentimental, humorist of the editorial page since the end of 1926. At first, "The Student Vagabond" embodied an anonymous impersonal editor who would recommend certain lectures for possible browsers to audit. Eventually and inevitably, however, Vag's name stirred editorial imagination, and two years after his creation, he was becoming a composite of the lackadaisical, as well as the wise, Harvard...
Rudy Vallee, the Vagabond Lover, was singing the Stein Song With Yale-boy gusto. America's other favorite band, Paul Whiteman's, played a promising new song called With a Song in My Heart. Bing Crosby was touring in vaudeville. That week the stockmarket crashed, and Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt introduced a Chicago band to its customers. The band, fancily titled Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, played Stardust and My Blue Heaven. They still...
...poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...
...willing to swear that they have seen it all a thousand and one times before: the bejeweled, cloth-of-gold turbans; the moon-drenched palace gardens; the sleepy camels and fiery horses; interior sets as sumptuous as Hollywood nightclubs and exteriors that make the Taj Mahal look ramshackle; the vagabond street singer, Aladdin (Cornel Wilde), whose love for beautiful Princess Armina (Adele Jergens) is thwarted by the Sultan's wicked brother (Dennis Hoey...
Until the late twenties, Hughes was merely a wandering vagabond, occasionally writing poems but seldom submitting them to news or magazine editors...