Word: vagabonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lazily the Vagabond rolled out of bed and peered out his window into the sunlight and the courtyard of the almost deserted House. "By gosh, he yawned, "It's a good day. The three hundred and sixty-fifty, or something like it, and I see by the Crimson they've got another Commencement coming round. I guess I'll shave...
Yesterday the Vagabond, exhausted by his load of examinations (mind you, a threesome in a row), walked into a travel agency in search of stimulation from the bright-colored posters and handbooks. After rummaging through the pamphlets on the main counter, during which period of ecstasy an impudent clerk glanced down with a sneer, doubting without speaking the Vagabond's ability to travel anywhere, his hands picked up a pink sheet. O, Harvard what a sight for sore eyes! Shore Excursion of the S. S. Tameriane To Boston and Harvard, Monday. August 2nd By Arrangement with the Weyman Ritcomb...
Washington Street is ablaze with marquees as the Vagabond weaves his way. In deadly peril his eyes blink and head ducks from sharp, swarming umbrellas. Ticket sellers, polished bars, and even the warped old lady vending gardenias are busy in the rain. Doors of movie palaces swing forever, and before the Park Theatre, flaunting its usual lascivious attraction, stand two sailor boys counting their coins...
...Common and back on Washington Street the Vagabond picks the least objectionable of the Double Features, and he too climbs the carpeted stairway to emerge from the dark onto the top of the world, follows the dancing spot of the flashlight to a seat, and settles back to laugh or cry with housewives and clerks under the spell of the Celluloid Muse...
...brushed aside a tousled, screeching head bent upon chalking the sidewalk, the Vagabond observed to himself how Byron Piccup had made into a college-worthy art are what most men had always considered an instinct...