Word: vagabonded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year was less than five minutes old as the Vagabond, or someone, at least who might well have been mistaken for him, was reclining in a comfortable sofa at a country club. Next to him sat a beautiful creature of, shall we say, the gentler sex. Perhaps the opposite sex would more accurately convey our meaning, for the Vagabond is essentially a virile specimen...
...empty champagne glass in the Vagabond's hand bore evidence of the new year's proper reception and with the Vagabond all was well. He remembered, a trifle vaguely, perhaps, that he would not roam the halls of learning until the mid year examinations; besides, we have remarked, perhaps we should say confessed, the glass was empty. Then, too, it has been recorded that the Vagabond's companion was fair, was, it may be said, shall, in fact, be said, nothing short of well favored...
From the next room but one we had almost said the adjacent room, came the strains of syncopation, and the Vagabond, not given to such things, realized almost with a start, that he was sitting out a dance with a veritable "wow", a "knock-out", a "hot mama". (Note the quotation marks, which show that the Vagabond does not wholly approve of the vulgar phrasing, used here only for emphasis. The gist of what he means to convey, and the terms the Vagabond himself would use, being a gentleman of the old school, would be belle, or shall...
...after all, who will blame the Student Vagabond? Who, indeed! Who is so hard hearted as not to shed a tear--even only figuratively speaking at the thought of the grievous impediment which the freezing slush of Massachusetts avenue would offer to progress of the wanderer's roller skates? Who would not weep to see him, lightly skimming along the boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those...
...that too cause no sadness, for the very tears of the parting are, as they say, swallowed up in the smile of the return, and as soon as the weather and various other conditions grows milder, the Vagabond will once more be a frequenter of the Yard...