Word: vagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was only one thing new on the Russian merry-go-round as it wheeled around to the same old tune: it had one rider less than before. The old East-West split of 53-to-6 had now become 54-10-5. The vagrant vote came from the grinning, youthful-looking Yugoslav delegates who sat in the row behind Vishinsky, seeming to rejoice in their freshly asserted break from Mother Russia...
...skilled, sensitive hand. They had warmth. Even the portrait of Governor Fuller, who was hardly John's sort, showed that the artist's heart, as well as his art, had been called into play. In his autobiography, the old man, looking back, decides that "Love is a vagrant and when we revisit the tents, we find the gypsies gone and nothing left of them but a few rags and the black circles of their fires." John's open-eyed love for his; fellow man illumines the best of his portraits; their fires still glow...
Claiming he was a merchant marine radio technician trying to get back to his ship in New York, and using the name "Francis McGowan" the shabbily-dressed vagrant worked through C-entry in Dunster House and was apprehended by Yard police as he tried to talk his way past the Winthrop House janitor...
...Manhattan's Bowery Comeback Association, dedicated to turning bums into good citizens, tried its hand at helping vagrant women by offering them 1) a free beauty treatment, 2) a new wardrobe, 3) room rent for four weeks and 4) $60 in cash. There were no takers...
Table of Contents. In Simcoe, Ont., police arrested Anthony Spellay as a vagrant, searched him, found in his pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere...