Word: vagabonding
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...cleared his throat: "I don't often do this," he observed. "It's such a drain on one's energy. Now that Harvard only allows one fund drive a year, I feel that I must conserve my strength for this single effort, but I can remember when . . . See here, Vagabond, let me show you where this money that my young friends are asking for is spent, and how little they've been getting...
...Outing Club!" snarled the dyspeptic Vagabond as he sank into the most luxurious easy-chair of his sumptuous suite. "Why can't they leave the outing clubs at Dartmouth, where that sort of thing belongs?" His complexion was losing its summer tan, taking on the familiar city sallowness, and his eyes were red with Cambridge soot. This Cambridge Scrooge rested upon his recumbent spine, and his head nodded...
...Vagabond sucked on his unlit pipe and began to wonder. The author of the text he had just put aside had a great deal of information about the Middle Ages, undoubtedly remarkable, and perhaps even useful, but could that author transform his dry, textbook style into such sonorous periods and ringing phrases as were went to keep even the drowsiest Freshman from nodding at nine o'clock in the morning? And even if his author could deliver such a lecture, thought Vag, could he hold to the measured pace of his biweekly oration through a series of shrill bursts from...
Mark Twain had once described a legendary Mississippi River roustabout, Mike Fink, as "half man, half alligator," the Vagabond remembered. That certainly caught his character right,--a leathery-hides roughneck, quick with a knife, ready to let you have it with hands, feet, fingernails, anti teeth if he didn't like the way you shook your dice...
...Vagabond had heard about Mike in a history lecture last December. Old Mike was only one of a long line of memorable individuals who had marched before him in that lecture series. Indian fighters like James Robertson and Sevier, and Wilkinson, who drew a general's and a spy's pay at the same time, were others who had excited Vag's imagination...