Word: vagabonding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early wanderings took him along the "pumpkin show" circuit, from Tulsa to Lewiston, Idaho. Race meetings lasted one or two days, and purses were a piddling $100. About 30 vagabond horsemen roamed this circuit, and none ever got rich?or starved?mainly because of a secret mutual-assistance pact that no matter who won a race everybody with a horse in it shared equally in the purse...
...could have been little more than a week ago--two weeks at the most--when the Vagabond found himself leaning back in a chair, tie loosened, sleeves rolled up, holding a book. He had the book in his lap, but reading he was not. He was Contemplating. Staring into and beyond the passers-by, feeling the fluorescent lighting of Lamont beat down on the back of his neck, the Vagabond merged himself slowly with his surroundings. The Kentucky Derby, the Term Bill, the grey flannels that needed pressing--all worldly items left his mind as he felt himself received into...
...Vagabond loosened his tie knot the least bit, threw away his cigarette. At the plate the coach hefted the fungo bat, swung through easily, and looped the ball to the leftfielder...
...softball team will report for practice immediately after vacation." He had come across the river to gobble up a few grounders, loosen up the ol' flipper, curve a few over. . . have it in there, Vag, boy, just lay it in there, no hitter no sticker boy, have it in. . . "Vagabond, who pitched nine scoreless frames against Dudley, also was a titan at the plate, blasting in all six tallies for the victors who won their fourth straight House championship...
...Vagabond smiled happily. Holiday had provided the revelation he had been waiting for all his days. He busied himself thinking of a way to post its pages on his grey flannels...