Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roving Reporter, sunk in reminiscent dreams, had all but decided that colleges, college men and college furniture were as they had always been, when he noticed three jovial students carrying an unfamiliar apparatus along the pathway under the shade of the time-hallowed elm trees...
...PATHWAY-Henry Williamson- Dutton ($2.50). After the War, William Maddison crept back to his native Devon, to the burrows, the sandhills, the rising and ebbing tides, to starry nights in winter, to summer nights of mad lightning and serene moonlight. At the Manor of Wildernesse he still found Mary, "grave and beautiful and innocent," who loved small birds and high winds as he did himself...
...always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost, no pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary vision of the vanished village of Cambridge: a moment affording a rare memory these days. To escape to the country now one must travel for thirty minutes in train or motor...
...creature, and perhaps death would not come so long as she could smile. Packed away there was another potion that might restore him. Aithra warned her but she took no notice, clapped for wine and balsam and herself brewed the cup of quietude that proved to be remembrance and pathway to a happy ending...
Accompanied by his wife, his daughter, Mr. Walton entered a kiosk. From the platform he surveyed with disfavor a gloomy pathway, splotched with grime and puddles, lined with tracks. "Whatever would they want tracks for?" he inquired of his wife as the three of them jumped down off the platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling...