Word: roam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good snipe hunt. With a small group of friends (the Heffeifinger boys, and, now and then, Fannie Ward) I would while away the long Connecticut afternoons, ever intent on the elusive snipe. Garbed in sundry clothing and an umbrella slickers were then a practically unknown territory, we would roam through the bills, little dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just why, I don't know) that a friend of mine was telling me only the other day of a little incident which befell him on an European tour. It seems that there were three...
...with M. Schwartzbard telling the court in a high pitched voice and halting French, his beady eyes gleaming, his face suffused with joy, how he had tracked Petlura down. With a photograph of his intended victim in his pocket and a loaded pistol in another, he was wont to roam the street peering into the faces of passers-by to see if they were Petlura. All this, he said, he did to avenge the assassinations of his coreligionists. Finally, he found and killed...
Soviet philosophy allows no restraint to be put on children. Even in the schools a student studies only those subjects he fancies. These wolflike boys and girls, all about the age of 13 or 14, are thus allowed to prey upon society because they prefer to prey and to roam the country, although homes have been provided for them and some 1,900,000 have thus been taken care of, taught trades, etc. But the homes are evidently not all they are supposed to be, for recently the head of one institution was arrested because he placed iodine...
...Grand Banks are one of the most treacherous spots in the world. Sudden fogs blanket the ocean for days, the sea is calm one hour out of every 360, and the huge green ice blocks are a constant threat to the fishing smacks which roam the Banks for weeks at a time...
...Arthur Brisbane, able journalist, was a luncheon guest. He was permitted to roam through the White House and observe the alter- ations-more bookshelves in the President's upstairs study; bigger and better linen closets ("Wives of Presidents in years to come will bless the name of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge," said Mr. Brisbane); a new rug in the Red Room in the middle of which is an angry eagle with E Pluribus Unum above his head, with an olive branch in his right claws, arrows in his left. The eagle is glaring at the arrows and Mr. Brisbane said...