Word: saunter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual saunter with which the British team goes out to greet the returning climbers and to hear the fate of its expedition will go down in anecdote as a classic underplay in the British tradition. When Lowe, the first of the three to come down, gives the sign for thumbs up, a thrill shoots through the audience; and when the camera picks up Hillary and Tenzing, their faces shining like those of men who have been in paradise, it is a hard heart that will not beat faster, and a hard face that will not break into answering smiles...
...Polynesians used tattooing as a substitute for decorative clothes, covering their torsos with equivalents of California sport shirts. Few Westerners, excepting side show performers, go so far. But, Ebensten recalls, "A well-built man with a massive chest used to saunter along [London's] Edgeware Road in the hot summer of 1949 with his shirt open to the waist, proudly revealing a great scene of Mount Calvary." Denmark's King Frederik sports an array of Oriental dragons...
Surely you remember the Continent. But why have memories? Saunter in to afternoon tea or stretch out on the sands in toreador pants--close-fitting, high-waisted, utterly suitable for casual entertainment. Return from the beach and shed your tappa cloth: shantung in any style takes away the taint of informality. It goes anywhere in cool evenings...
Drawling Dale Robertson and baby-faced Anne Francis saunter through the Haitian underbrush as if they were taking a Sunday stroll in a botanical garden. In a )rief but effective appearance, Ken Renard plays Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti's "ounding father, who, judging from the movie, was on hand mainly to give Robertson moral support. But it is deep-voiced William Marshall who towers above the rest of the cast physically and histrionically as fictional Haitian Patriot King Dick...
...Keiths went back and what they found in postwar Borneo make for a chatty, cheerful saunter through life in a jungle suburbia...