Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain, off to the shore to split waves with his strong body and loaf on the warm sand...
...small farmers, etc.); working intermittently for the Crown, usually at ditch cleaning or road-making; collecting wild birds' eggs for city oologists. The women go into the towns in rags, carrying their grubby offspring to excite pity and alms from passing motorists. The men, for the most part, loaf about, in and under their wagons...
...Ward was named president of the new corporation, it was evident that that famed 41-year-old baker was carrying out his long-rumored plan of merging the great bakeries of the country and controlling their factory brands of the national life-staff from sown seed to delivered loaf. U. S. housewives still bake 50% of the bread, cake and pastry that is eaten. Baker Ward would attend to much of the rest...
...beauty, or from butter-fingered Lily who couldn't say boo to a goose. But she scrimped and saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed the slaves, built fortunes, warred with Spain, the Campions were claimed by frustration, poverty and middle...
...idea of the 'gentleman's C', which has become a popular excuse for mediocrity, is a conventionality of thought which is turning Harvard from a College into a convenient place to loaf and be great. . . Extra-curriculum distinction claims the undergraduate attention...