Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poisoned pellets scattered around by the Maintenance Department would seem to have had but slight success in alleviating the condition, the rodents continuing to wander freely in the upper stories...
This morning at 10 the Vagabond will at last return to serious business. Having completely emerged from The Depths, he is planning to wander up to the Music building and hear more about a composer who has fascinated him. He has heard that the Music 1 devotees have arrived at that point; he knows (off the record) that, among other things, the last movement of the Second Symphony will be played before the hour is over; and he wants to see if that certain student with the incredible laugh is still spicing the proceedings with his outbursts of merriment...
...language frontiers and in areas visited by tourists. This seemed like good business even to the most zealous Fleming, but to Florimond Grammens it appeared as sabotage of the language laws. Believing in direct action, M. Grammens bought a brush and a pot of black paint, began to wander along the countryside hunting out French inscriptions which hurt his patriotic Flemish feelings. Soon numerous young Flemish students joined...
Died. Harry Arista Mackey, 65, one-time (1928-31) mayor of Philadelphia; as the result of an automobile accident; in Philadelphia. While he was mayor he sometimes disguised himself in tatters and false whiskers to wander at night among the city's poor and jobless...
...sighed. He would resort to his perennial remedy for his perennial nostalgia. Tonight he would wander up to the Geographic Institute and see Sacha Guitry in "Perles de la Couronne." He would pretend he was in his little "theatre du quartier." He would sit back in the beguiling darkness and, full of the "light sane joy of life," he would wink knowingly at some bespectacled Radcliffe girl...