Word: vagabonding
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...Fritz's first steps were mazurkas and waltzes, as he listened to an aunt in Vienna play on the family's baby grand. At five he wrote his first tune, and at nine he contributed melodies to a show of his father's. He also spent so much vagabond time in backstage dressing rooms that his parents decided to put him in a Berlin military school. He still resentfully recalls the wrought-iron gates closing on his smiling, light-footed mother, a blown kiss and her casual "Goodbye, my love, be happy." Later he studied piano at Stern's Conservatory...
...same old things in the same old way," said Richardson in wonderment. "But, whango, something seems to happen to the ball.'' All this was prelude to the seventh and deciding game. In the first inning, with one man on base, up to bat stepped a garrulous vagabond named Rocky Nelson, 35. In his 16-season baseball career, Nelson had played for six big-league teams and been consigned to the minors five times before finally catching on with Pittsburgh, where he was revered for the art of chewing tobacco for a full hour without spitting. Against Yankee...
...German's Taste. What seems as incredible as ever is that the little Austrian vagabond ever got a political foothold at all. Shirer tries to explain Hitler's success by citing some obvious facts of German history and character: defeat in World War I set the stage for an adventurer who promised to end the shame of the Versailles Treaty; and German distaste for democracy, coupled with a veneration for authority, enabled thugs to make a deal with respectable elements and then terrorize a whole nation. Shirer plainly believes that in Hitler the Germans got a leader...
Long recognized as having great speed and a wicked curve, Jones has finally conquered the wildness that made him a vagabond during most of his eleven years in organized baseball. Somehow San Francisco's crisp weather seems just right for Jones's aging right arm (he claims that it shrinks two inches every game). Somehow the stiff wind that blows in from Candlestick Park's leftfield now seems to make his curve ball more effective, though as a minor-leaguer he once vowed: "I'll never pitch in this windy city again...
...Magician (Swedish). Bergman in another mood tells the story of a small-time 19th century Mesmer whose mystical mask covers an ordinary man (but is he really?) forced by poverty to be a "ridiculous vagabond, living...