Word: saunterings
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...tardy professor's permission to release his name to the anxious students. If they faculty member agrees, the undergraduate may be privileged to take a bus-ride over to Brookline and read the volume at the professor's home. If not, he might as well give up and saunter down Widener's steps and into the Yard, resolutely humming "Rock of Ages...
Instead of using a behind-the-scenes voice for narration, the producers of Operation Ivy employed Television Actor Reed Hadley, star of Public Defender and Racket Squad, to saunter through the picture in khaki uniform, lighting his pipe, leaning negligently against bulkheads, and standing against the tropic sky. Actor Hadley (who was whisked secretly to the Pacific in 1952 and who was not allowed to let even his wife know where he had been until last week) could hardly be blamed for doing his conscientious best in the role assigned him. But a great deal of his job was devoted...
...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...