Word: vagabondism
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...reveries inspired by a sweet pipe-smoke, a pipe-smoke like unto those described in mild, mellow, expensive advertising, the Vagabond has often pondered the decay of magazine editors. Following a train of thought induced by mention of Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There...
Yesterday the Vagabond saw a magazine which nearly quenched his nostalgia for the penny-dreadfuls of yesteryear. It was the Athletic Association "News." At first the issue appeared to be the same Brutes and Brawn confection that has occupied Mr. Ryan's spare moments for years. But on page twenty of the issue which the Vagabond stole from his neighbor's doorsill there was an editorial dripping with the true sweetness and light...
There is no need to go on. This is the making of a crusader. But when the Vagabond had finished it he was reconciled to the fate of "Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...
...Vagabond sips his rhum at case. From an office in Time magazine he hears a voice. "Tutrinsically worthless," the voice says, "But you have to have it. It's like a necktie. Just a convention, a caste mark...
...Vagabond enjoys the sound and fury, the pomp and circumstances. It would be a poor thing to worship a god who never caused an earthquake, who never created a monkey...