Word: vagabonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan was not all lights for the Vagabond. The old fellow--as his friends well know--really doesn't belong with Father Knickerbocker's distortions of a rip roaring time; at least not after a night or so of it. So what did the whimsy Vagabond do but up and away with his little brother...
...chief charm of the Bronx is the zoo. And, gentle readers, isn't that what makes the Vagabond the charming old rascal that he is--that he likes such things? What's the Cotton Club compared to a cage of acrobatic monkeys? Feed a fair one at the Ritz at two-fifty a plate; feed the animals in the zoo--but they won't let you--at five cents a bag--and much more fun! Philosopher thou art right: How distorted our sense of values is! Then on Friday the Vagabond heard Rudy Vallee at the Waldorf; on Sunday--with...
...this is really preliminary to saying that the Vagabond is happy to be back again and in the scholastic harness. Tonight he will sleep in his four poster and dream sweet dreams and maybe a nightmare or two--there is always the game. And tomorrow he will awake and, still with mixed thoughts of Manhattan, be off to see some "Moving Pictures of African Wild Life." The Vagabond feels this will be a relief after his escapade to the City...
...that, gentle readers, is no little change for the Vagabond who is more suited to an evening musing in his Tower than gadding about Father Knickerbocker's island. But here it is; and, bless his soul, here he is: "Look out der, buddy; this ain't bean town" . . . "Her der, hey der, Tigers fav'red; pape, mister, pape!" Hold thy prophecy, youngster, the game is . . . "Ah, nertz; read al' 'bout...
Time is about as scarce in Manhattan as a fresh breeze in the subway. No sooner had the Vagabond visited a few friends, seen "Jubilee" at the Imperial, sipped a little tea, and evening was on; and away . . . the old fellow's feeling gay. No Boston beans tonight...