Word: jaunting
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...arriving oarsmen were not spared from practice because of their train journey but were sent out on the Thames together for a mile and a half limbering up jaunt downstream...
Coach E. J. Brown confined his crews to a low stroke in the early workout, ordering that attention be paid to length of reach and timing of the catch. The University and the Jayvee boats took the jaunt side by side at a beat not exceeding 25 down or back...
...left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical rivalry, she started back from Cape Town to London-by plane...
...conquest first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei, is neatly played by Alice White. It would have seemed not incredible had their jaunt to Paris, underwritten by Mr. Eisman to further the already astonishingly complete education of his two protegés, resulted in the complete rehabilitation of the French franc...
...startled Main Street, Rapid City, and Wall Street, Manhattan. It is not unthinkable that he even startled himself, but certainly he startled no one more than his political impresario, William Morgan Butler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, who, just when the laconic lightning struck, was on a jotting jaunt in the Northwest, a tour of inspection to see what properties would be necessary for the Prosperities of 1928, starring Calvin Coolidge...