Word: saunter
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Meanwhile, the Committee for Wallace will oppose the Marshall Plan against the Radcliffe League for Democracy in a debate at 3 o'clock tonight in Cabot Ball Saunter H. Rear, assistant professor of Government, will moderate...
...world crisis called for quick action and the Western powers were in a slow-motion saunter...
Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...
...back to his drugstore in a small Iowa town. He is scarcely able to endure the attempts of his wife (Frances Dee) to comfort him. But one Sunday morning the ghost of his grandfather (Harry Carey) materializes, wearing his G.A.R. hat. He takes the father on a leisurely saunter through the Sabbath silence of the town, and through his memories...
...First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night and Day. Connection between this incident and the surrounding adventures at sea: none...