Word: vagrants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unwashed and unnoticed, scratch out a life al fresco in the shadows of Notre-Dame, the teeming Les Halles markets and the Seine bridges. The French of Paris call their dedicated bums les clochards (ones who limp), and think of them as the spiritual descendants of the great and vagrant Francois Villon...
...change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...Vagrants. Strangest of all the groups in the camps are the blatnye, the criminals, who take the best bunks, get the best food. "They belonged," wrote Dr. Scholmer, "to a tightly knit organization with rigid laws of its own which is to be found in every camp in Vorkuta. The organization is made up to a large extent of former besprizornye, the vagrant children who have been characteristic of the Soviet Union. I never once saw one so much as lay hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into...
...with Women. In Milwaukee, Vagrant Meredith P. Lowe. 35, held on $100 bail after he admitted romancing 300 women and obtaining money from 30 to 40 of them, denied any specific success formula: "I really don't try to swindle them; women are lonesome, and I just treat 'em nice, make 'em feel like real people, and tell them I like them and they'd make a wonderful wife...
...adorns the left knee." For the new rich there was advice on etiquette. Sample: "A word about the treatment of servants. One should always be kind to them. I always make it a point to be scrupulously civil to inferiors. I frequently stop in the street to pat a vagrant dog on the head or to say a kind word to a horse...