Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sneaking out of Chicago, the Vagabond spent the weekend traversing Missouri and Kansas and annoying farmers in Model T's and roadside cows with bits of dynamite that went "Bang!" and sometimes "Bang! Bang!" or just "Phfft!" Safe in Colorado Springs, he cheated the most ritzy hotel out of fifty cents for the use of their tennis courts. He headed for what he thought was Albuquerque and grew excited when two girls waved at him from a train that was chugging up a mountain. He followed the train sixty miles, only to discover he was going East...
...last you are here, and there is not only one of you but a thousand--ten hundred men assembled in one locality, susceptible to the wiles of solicitors and to the intricacies of Harvard Square. Some of these ten hundred will find the first weekend lonely and speak to themselves of the Harvard "indifference," as well renowned as the name of Columbus. Some will find the Back Bay accent strange. Before, however, you commit yourself or form a prejudice, accept as hearty welcome the advice of those who were once in your position...
When brokers cleared their desks fortnight ago, hustled out of town for the Labor Day weekend, the market had been falling steadily for three weeks. Supposedly it had fully discounted both war in China and a sudden wave of pessimism over fall business prospects. But the day sun-browned brokers returned from their holiday, a first-class European crisis burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker...
...board the Potomac for a weekend cruise on Chesapeake Bay were members of the President's personal staff and Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton-whose name was presumably the last crossed off the President's list of possibilities before he nominated Hugo L. Black for the Supreme Court...
After the weekend bombings neither Chinese nor Japanese tested the temper of this mixed force further by other invasions of the International Settlement, but hot & heavy the battle waged in Chinese Shanghai. By week's end casualty lists had mounted to 3,500 killed, 10.500 wounded with no appreciable change in the battle lines. A thousand U. S. citizens were promptly evacuated; 2.000 prepared to leave at the first opportunity...