Word: vagrant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason perhaps, must be sought in the harm that men had done to her from her childhood, in the vices by which she had been ruined in her early, vagrant life, and which in her own conception of them had so outraged her heart that she no longer felt it to deserve that a young man should with his love rescue and ennoble...
...Brook). They probably do not. But this one did. She was not more than 20 minutes on her way when the handsome youth appeared down the aisle of the train to make her succeeding years rather less lonely. She had met him when he was an actor in a vagrant troupe of hams. She followed him to Manhattan and made the acquaintance of a few hard facts. All this makes comparatively commendable entertainment...
...vocational school for hoboes would seem to be ideal, this new institution shuns such practicality to follow the tendencies of liberal education. Pubic speaking, visits to art galleries, musicales, all these and other cultural effects find place in the curriculum. In sum they represent an enrichment of each vagrant's life. After a winter spent in Chicago and enlivened by intellectual restlessness, the happy tramp heeds the call of the broad highway, his acquaintance with the humanities having given him that detached, impassive view of life, so idispensable to well-poised members of his profession...
...Fairbanks is his usual volcanic self. That should be more than enough for any picture. Yet the coloring seems principally important in The Black Pirate. Somewhere they have found a process which eliminates the vagrant greens and reds that blurred earlier attempts. It is not yet perfect. Yet it is distinctive and a decided advance in cinema decoration...
...title character, played by Mr. Nugent, arrives in a country village with a vagrant show troupe. There he finds his daughter, born 20 years before from a mother native of the village. The play then argues whether she shall stay among the whiskered rurals or set out on lifelong wanderings among the theatres. She does the latter. Ruth Nugent is this girl, pleasantly enough...