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The Littlest Hobo (French: Le Vagabond) is the Canadian television series based upon a 1958 movie of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. [1] The series first aired from 1963 to 1965 in syndication, and was revived for a popular second run on CTV, spanning six seasons, from October 11, 1979, to March 7, 1985.
Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants [a] usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft.
Two hoboes, one carrying a bindle, walking along railroad tracks after being put off a train (c. 1880s –1930s). A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. [1] [2] Hoboes, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works.
The word is also used, with ambiguous irony, in the classic 1937 Rodgers and Hart song "The Lady Is a Tramp", which is about a wealthy member of New York high society who chooses a vagabond life in "hobohemia". [11] Other songs with implicit or explicit reference to this usage include The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp and Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves.
In their book Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon observe that the hobo, "a vagabond or tramp, traveling by train throughout America and offering his services to farms to earn enough money to survive", was a "key figure in early 20th century American society", including in the works of Dylan's influences Woody Guthrie and ...
Slot credits are hobo’s piss to him, a “gaming investor”. ... casino revenue dropped from $5.2 billion to $2.9 billion. From 2013 to 2015, four casinos closed in 18 months, AC’s ...
In 1958 Astrid Lindgren received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her book Rasmus and the Vagabond. [7] Atle Hetland from The Nation believes that with this book Lindgren is "drawing attention to class and social inequality issues". He thinks that the orphan Rasmus, is "cared better for by a homeless man than all the social workers and ...
This is a list of chapters for the Japanese manga series Vagabond, written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto , based on Eiji Yoshikawa 's novel Musashi .