Word: vagabondism
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Near Canterbury in England there is a title brush grown field. The Vagabond has been led to believe that it is from this small plot of ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this...
...course, who was responsible for all this, who walked in "the ghoul-haunted woodlands of Weir" and though of "what man never dared to think before." Now the Vagabond himself is something of an authority on gaunt and ghastly ghouls and fifty-six other varieties of spooks, but he is anxious to hear Professor Matthiessen's lecture on Poe today at 10 o'clock in Harvard...
...Vagabond's head was full of romantic confusion. The Garibaldi of '49 fighting a lost battle on the walls of Rome moved in the blue smoke which filled the room and penetrated the imagination. This man who was to lead a tortured Italy to unity and freedom seemed to have ridden out of the pages of Trevelyan and to have swept the reader back to the riddled summit of the Janiculum. Standing there with the calm courage of a god, miraculously proof to the bullets of the enemy, one could understand why Italy rose to follow this man. His steps...
...necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps...
...Abraham Lincoln), he studied for the ministry at Hiram College (Ohio) then at the Chicago Art Institute and the New York School of Art. From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked to vagabond about the land, trading verses for food and shelter. His rules for hoboes: Be "neat, deliberate, chaste and civil . . . preach the gospel of beauty," avoid cities, cash, baggage, railroads; ask for dinner at 10:45 a. m., supper, lodging and breakfast at 4:45 p. m. Vachel (rhymes with Rachel) Lindsay...