Word: lolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just at this ebb period in industry, the subject of poverty is especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
Every summer, as the best resort from heat and the vapors, the Bullfinches, Allstovers, Timberlakes et al. go to Mary's Neck on the Maine Coast. There they loll on the beaches, collect antiques, sunburns and memories for their coming hibernations in more urban homes...
When Francis Scott Key (This Side of Paradise) Fitzgerald went there (Class of 1917), Princeton University was called a "country club." This was partly because Princeton is a pleasant countryside community, partly because its undergraduates were supposed to loll about with smooth hair and natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig...
York University. New York likes to come and loll on the grass, wheel its babby-carriage up & down, drink its pop as Bandmaster Goldman plays from a large, catholic repertory: chorales and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach, waltzes of Waldteufel, operatic gems and band transcriptions of modern works like Claude Achille Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloittie and Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome. Elsewhere throughout the city the band is also to be heard: its programs are sent by wire and amplifier to all Manhattan's public parks...
Abruptly in socialite Berlin the idea seemed to catch on. For the first time in smartest restaurants and "bars" (nightclubs) males were seen to peel off dinner jackets and tailcoats, loll in boiled-shirtsleeves...