Word: vagrants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quality of Mercy. In Baltimore, after a shabby vagrant asked for five days in jail to escape the winter cold, sympathetic Magistrate E. Everett Lane pointed out that March is chilly, too, kindly gave him 45 days...
...mourned Romance, now on the town, And Art, a vagrant...
Diehard. In El Paso, a vagrant gave his name as Adolf Hitler, but was booked under the name he had used in signing a local motel register-Heinrich Himmler...
Aviation to Xylophones. By the middle '30s, Mencken's influence had begun to fade. Mencken was as much the victim of the depression as the shivering vagrant to whom he once gave his overcoat on Times Square. He refused to take the depression seriously: "What goes up must come down. [That's] all the economic theory worth knowing." But a frightened and hungry U.S. public had no stomach for ridicule, and ridicule had always been the popular basis for the Mencken boom. By the late '30s, many bright young people barely knew who Mencken...
...lame-duck 81st Congress lingered on, dying slowly but not gracefully. Members were in a vagrant holiday mood; by midweek so many had left Washington that the leaders were barely able to call up a quorum. As matters stood before the Christmas recess, the 81st would not be able to adjourn until the day before the 82nd Congress convened...