Word: wanderlied
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...They will talk of many men and many things. They will know the faces and the ways of those they knew as boys, who are now grown to great affairs. They will know the faces and the ways of some who have slipped out of sight. These ghosts will wander about the dignified old hall and wait for better times. Whiting in the Boston Herald...
Dangerous Money. Bebe Daniels has been projected into another orgy of spending. She starts in love and poverty, inherits a fortune and goes away to an "exclusive school for young ladies"-one of those magnificent cinema schools where the girls wear curls down their backs and continually wander about bearing tennis rackets. From there, she shifts to Italy and is learning to drink just as her Irish sweetheart, who has left his construction gang to save her, arrives and orders beer...
...Root in a long and varied career has confronted many difficult problems, but never, perhaps one quite so ticklish as this. Like Diogenes he must wander through the streets searching for new members who will meet all the requirements of membership at the particular moment. One candidate will have to be not only a catholic, but also a Progressive, a free-trader, and a supporter of the open shop. Another vacancy may call for a Protestant, a supporter of Davis, a backer of immigration, limitation, and a firm friend of high protective tariffs...
Above all, no man may chance his views on any subject. No Catholic may become a Protestant, no Democrat may support Coolidge, no capitalist turn socialist! Or once again would Mr. Root be forced to take up his lantern and wander out into the night...
...only that. To be free to come and go, to admire and to behold the many commonplace beauties of life, to watch the meeting of lovers as they pause in the crowded streets at this sweet time of year, to drop into a picture house at his will, to wander here and wander there, lingering at dusty book stalls or staring into shop windows, to have a little job and the capacity to get away with it, he would without doubt, be glad to start life all over at fifty without a penny in his pockets...