Word: vagabonder
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Emerging from a three-day "rest and a general checkup" in a private psychiatric hospital in Manhattan, Vagabond Crooner Eddie Fisher protested at a high-pitched press conference that the only romance between Wife Elizabeth Taylor and her Cleopatra costar, Richard Burton, was onscreen. Laughing off rumors of breakup and breakdown as "preposterous, ridiculous and absolutely false," Fisher predicted a similar public disclaimer from Liz, but after a 15-minute transatlantic call, returned to the conference with a stricken look. "You know," he warbled in the most pitiable understatement of the week, "you can ask a woman to do something...
...women stood bathed in the ghostly light of a single street lamp or hung around restaurants and bars that were tense and joyless, as if the whole city knew of the dark days just ahead. After Hitler came to power, Heldt quit painting, became a kind of vagabond doing whatever jobs he could find. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and spent three months as a British prisoner. It was not until 1945 that he took up his brushes again...
...poet (it is in the third person), he sent to an admirer a blurb for his work, intended to be passed on to his publisher. "Personally," wrote Walt, "the author of Leaves of Grass is in no sense whatever the 'rough,' 'eccentric,' 'vagabond' or queer person that the commentators persist in making him . . . always bodily sweet & fresh, dressed plainly & cleanly, a gait & demeanor of antique simplicity ... an American Personality, & real Democratic Presence, that not only the best old Hindu, Greek and Roman worthies would at once have responded to, but which the most cultured...
...Vagabond Toad. One morning last week, Governor Patterson strode briskly down the cherry-red carpeted staircase in the Governor's mansion and out onto the marble terrace for breakfast. Already at the table were his wife Mary Jo (called "Tuti"), their twelve-year-old son Albert L., and their eight-year-old daughter Barbara Louise. Cardinals flitted through the gigantic water oaks and pecan trees on the mansion lawn, and a squad of six Negro trusty prisoners in white uniforms trimmed the grass while the Governor attacked a plate of muffins and bacon. Suddenly a furor arose...
...chief executive of the state of Alabama whirled into action. "Hey," he yelled. "Hey, don't you all kill that toad!" Patterson jumped up from the table and sprinted across the lawn to save a horned toad, a family pet that is consigned by Tuti to a vagabond's life in the garden...