Word: vagabonder
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Ladies, lovers, jazz, and what have you? are agreeably combined in these: Sunny; The Cocoanuts; No, No, Nanette; The Vagabond King; Artists and Models; Tip-Toes; The Student Prince...
Humility is good for the soul and there are few things that so inspire it as the examination of our ancestors. Big oaks from little acorns grow, and any vagabond who is at all addicted to sporting with words, whether he considers himself a literary oak or not, can do much worse than to hear Professor Tozzer talk about the acorns of our language. At 9 o'clock this morning, he will lecture in the Semitic Museum in Anthropology I on the origin of writing and the beginnings of our alphabet...
...every day that one can be an aesthete. A vagabond must watch the calendar warily, and when the fitting day arrives, pounce upon it. Bozo Snyder has left these parts to show his toothless grin to other audiences. There are those left, however, who still hold aloft the banner of culture, and the aesthete need not quite despair...
There are a lot of good courses which are just no good at all for an eccentric vagabond because they themselves are long wanderings through deserts of text. There comes an oasis, though, in every desert, a context in every text, witness Italian 2. Ariosto is about to be encountered by Professor Weston and this morning's lecture in Sever 5 will deal with him as an epic writer and not as an introduction to the Italian language. And besides, Sever 5 is on the first floor...
...This institution, located in Chicago, has had more than 20,000 men on its roster in the past term. "One of the qualifications for graduation", says the dispatch, "was examination by a psychiatrist, the college faculty holding that prolonged vagrancy indicated a psychopathic condition." As far as a true vagabond is concerned, this is indefensible,--diplomas and examinations. What after all, is the use of vagabonding...