Word: gadabout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wons absent from radio poetizing, the coziest parlor voice in U. S. radio nowadays is that of Ted (Between the Bookends) Malone, sympathizer, poesy reader, prattler extraordinary. When Ted Malone comes visiting, the average U. S. woman-of-the-house finds herself as politely helpless as when the gadabout from down the street calls. "May I come in?" asks Ted. "I see you are alone. . . . Now I'll just take this rocker here by the radio and chat awhile. . . . What lovely new curtains. . . . Well...
...Jubilee in September, it was confirmed at The Hague that Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a second child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three weeks' bachelor vacation, leaving her at The Hague, told friends last week: "Benno and I will soon go for a cruise in the Baltic on the yacht we were given as a wedding present...
...Manhattan. Gadabout Manville explained he had paid his wife $200,000 to go off quietly to Reno and abandon her plans to nick him for $1,000,000. Burbled he: "I like to do things in a businesslike...
...Japanese subjects in batches what they are to think and are not to think. In Japan this is only a re-introduction of such measures as were taken in 1649 when the State issued an edict minutely instructing peasants upon such points as the imperative necessity of divorcing a gadabout wife. Since 1928, police have arrested some 60,000 Japanese on the charge of "thinking Dangerous Thoughts." The 22 Thought Control Offices came as a kind of relief, providing centres more comfortable than jails in which docile Japanese may learn what thoughts to have...
...author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable and affectionate knowledge of hounds...