Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actress Billie Burke at a masquerade party with Somerset Maugham. Ziegfeld was dressed as a tramp. He rushed home, changed to full dress, sprayed himself with perfume. Actress Burke liked the perfume. He courted her quietly, with Grant's Tomb their usual rendezvous. On the day that Lefty Louis, one of the murderers of Herman Rosenthal, was executed, alert newsmen discovered that Showman Ziegfeld had married Actress Burke in Hoboken. They shared the front page with Lefty Louis...
...alive. So lively are they, so picturesque is the Balkan political turmoil in which they agitate, that most readers will be more interested in their daily doings than in discovering which one of them murdered the two American boys. Just out of college, the boys were taking an innocent tramp through Europe, landed up by chance in Trapani, capital of Corisco. Things were buzzing in that queer town. Former Minister Karadagh, recently released from jail, was plotting to depose the sinister fat eunuch, Taabor Pasha, Corisco's highly oriental Prime Minister. French Financier Martignac was making negotiations concerning...
...until 7 p. m. (with time out for lunch). Sharp on the stroke of 9 a. m., War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov cantered into the Red Square on a sleek bay steed, three Red Army bands blared the "Internationale" and 60,000 troops began an earth-shaking tramp led by picked units of the Ogpu (secret service). New fighting units this year were eight-wheeled "Speed Tanks" mounting two-inch guns and four-motored bombing planes. Swooping through the sky in "Red Star" formation 300 fighting ships made even more noise than the exuberant 30-gun artillery salute...
Hardly 13, Arthur Fearon, a puny, whimpering, pinch-faced Liverpool schoolboy, is brutally forced to work by a drunken father. His first job, bailing bilge water out of a filthy ship and chipping salt from the boilers, so sickens him that he crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which...
When, at 16, she becomes pregnant, she steals 100 francs from the local post office and runs away to Bordeaux. There she miscarries the child, takes to prostitution as a starving bird takes to a cage. The captain of a tramp steamer gets her drunk, whisks her off with him to Venezuela. There he drops her; there, bit by bit, she begins to collect money to get back to her adored France...