Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the memory of the late unpleasantness which visited the University during the last weeks, still so fresh in his mind, the Student Vagabond feels a great and irresistible urge to wander farther afield than the confines of Sever and New Lecture Hall. Never before have the Metropolitan white-lights glowed so invitingly; never before have the boards and the silver screen been so enticing...
...managers to postpone the Boston engagement would be futile since any such request would need figures and collegiate receipts for substantiation; nor is the average college student supposed to wander from the histrionics of Keiths revenues and the Metropolitan. There are however a few devotees of the opera who have succumbed to the allurements of a college education. To them the solution is the old and expensive one the midnight to New York...
...midst of this unspeakable nausea for himself, a violent tragedy causes to be brought forth from his rage and his despair the question. "why?"--"This 'why' remained standing before him like a pillar, cleaving the distant fog, and toward that pillar he would have to wander involuntarily and almost unconsciously." Laudin comes into contact with Louise Dercum, a famous actres, in whose personality seems to be mirrored all life; through her he attempts to grasp an answer to this "Why," but in the end finds only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door...
Industrialists decided several months ago that the performances and sideshows of King Caponi's regime were interfering with both the efficiency and nerves of their workers. Two vice presidents of a corporation were despatched to Washington to appeal to the Federal Government. Secret Service agents returned to wander around Cicero's grimy nooks. Suddenly, last week, a Federal grand jury indicted "Scarface Al" Caponi and his brother Ralph; Joseph Z. Klenha, president of the town of Cicero; Ted L. Svoboda, chief of police, and 75 others, for con-spiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Federal agents say they...
...Those sad young men" wander about a strange Boston, a strange Harvard. And to make some gesture of despair they cheer from the opponent's side at every football game. Harvard is to them a stack privilege and the survival of the fittest, plus a meal once in a dog's age at a table bigger than a grave marker...