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...nice day and you feel like checking out the city and frolicking a but, take the Red Line to Park St. where you'll find the Boston Common and the nearby Boston Public Garden. The Garden, with its flowerbeds, duckpond setting and swan boats is a nice place for a picnic (furnished by the gourmet grocery stores around the corner on Charles St.) And if you're up for some historical hiking, you'll be at the start of the Freedom Trail, a walking tour which snakes past the Old North Church, Paul Revere's House, and the magestic gold...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: What to do if you Miss The 7:30 A.M. Newport Bus | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

...blooded MRAer could read your story about the eleven released American airmen and then go onstage and mouth the nauseating - and badly written at that - lyrics of The Vanishing Island is beyond my understanding. They belong in Alice in Wonderland, not paddling around in a duckpond of childish politics with a world in crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...sages can. Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group of boys are sailing boats in a duckpond, and the birds retreat to the far end, haughtily ignoring the invasion of their domain. In such a place even the shoddiest of men take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/25/1932 | See Source »

MERTON OF THE MOVIES ? From the duckpond of Simsbury, Ill., Merton Gill (Glenn Hunter), unsophisticated duckling, takes flight to Hollywood, imagining he is a swan. The dream collapses, but the duckling succeeds in an hilarious parody of other waddlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

MERTON OF THE MOVIES?From the duckpond of Simsbury, Ill., Merton Gill (Glenn Hunter), unsophisticated duckling, takes flight to Hollywood, imagining he is a swan. The dream collapses, but the duckling succeeds in an hilarious parody of other waddlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 19, 1923 | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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