Word: vagabonder
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...with no small degree of anticipation that the Vagabond will hasten to Sever 11 this afternoon at 2 o'clock, for there he expects to see and hear a demonstration of unusual interest...
...reviewing the lectures of today, the Vagabond finds a myriad which he believes would prove, if not interesting, at least not otherwise. But, after all, it is Saturday, and the Vagabond feels, and not without reason, that he must, lie abed in hopes of better times, which incidentally, he expects to accrue to him sometime this afternoon...
...Vagabond is truly sorry that his old favorite Edgar Allen Poe did not write after 1870, for although he has always enjoyed the author's short stories with a chill of horror, let it be said, nevertheless, that he would like to have some authority tell the story of Poe's death in a gutter. The Vagabond feels that, inasmuch as that is a very possible end for him, he would like to know that geniuses before him have met the same fate...
...this, believe it or not, is leading up to the fact that Professor Murdock is giving a lecture on "The American Short Story since 1870" this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 1, at which the Vagabond expects to be present. For even if Poe is his favorite, he likes to wipe the cold sweat off his brow every now and then and enjoy the tales of O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, and many others whom Professor Murdock will probably cover...
Therefore it is in a sense of exploration that the Vagabond will venture within the stronghold of Jordan Hall tonight to witness one of the land-marks in the history of the so-called new movement in music in Boston. For attention is being entered tonight on music written for the most part for small combinations of instruments, music which has rarely been heard previously. Works like the "Octet" by Stravinsky, and portions of the same composer's "Story of a Soldier"; songs by a young German modernist, Hindemith and above all, the very famous work for reciting voice...