Word: meanderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once a year, in mid-August, the sleepy little village of Goshen, N. Y. becomes for a day the capital of the harness-racing world. There, along elm-shaded streets that were meant for its population of 4,000, 40,000 trotting-race enthusiasts, in carnival spirit, meander toward Good Time Track and the running of the Hambletonian, world's richest race for trotting horses...
With the purpose of keeping the waters to their present meander, the plan now is to cut back the bank slightly and lay a stone course on the stream's edge between the Larz Anderson and electric company bridges on the Boston side...
...remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example, her first meander, starting from a glass dragon on her mantelpiece, peters out with a goldfish in Hollywood that swooned during an earthquake and had to be revived with salt water...
...mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would cut west across dry land for 30 miles to a point about 20 miles from the Gulf. There it would pick up the Withlacoochee, follow its course down to the Gulf at Port Inglis. Total length of the canal: 200 miles, including...
...class as its companion, it is, however, good of its kind. It is the run-of-the-mill musical comedy, Hollywood style. Its greatest virtues lie in the unusual amount of good music and in the personality and general form of Miss Ginger Rogers. Such songs as "I Wants Meander with Miranda," "Good Morning Glory," and "Did You Ever See a Dram Walking" all currently popular, are to be found scattered through the course of the film. The plot, if the faint trend of connected story may be so designated, concerns a couple of song writers busting the Hollywood fences...