Word: sleighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accept a call back to Williams to teach moral philosophy and rhetoric. With anatomy and physiology classes as well, he decided that he must have a manikin for classroom demonstrations. He bought the manikin himself for $600, worked off the debt by packing it behind him in his sleigh, circulating over the Massachusetts countryside- to deliver public lectures on human anatomy...
...Rochelle Hudson out into the storm. When the local gossip strides off to the skating party, one is amused; when Andy Devine comes in out of the stormy night, one is convulsed. The entire picture breathes a homely old-fashioned warmth. One becomes a little nostalgic for skating parties, sleigh rides, socials, and the days before the good roads had come to let the outsiders in and the insiders...
...horseplay of the initiation did the President stay. Then, accompanied by his initiate son, he entrained for Hyde Park and the bosom of his fun-loving family: mother, wife and daughter. Next day he initiated his new son-in-law, John Boettiger in Roosevelt pastimes. In a bright red sleigh with Daughter Anna by his side and Son-in-law John in a single seat behind, President Roosevelt drove for several miles over the snow-packed roads of the Roosevelt estate, to tea at the cottage near the Val-Kill furniture factory...
...stern"-pardon me-"the large, stern" shadow of Mary E. Woolley. It is a pitiful case. I never realized what the four years in which cramming for quizzes was offset by weekends in New York and Boston, dances, dates, athletics, horse shows, class entertainments, concerts, lectures, movies, dramatics, pageants, sleigh rides, carnivals (must I continue?) really meant. . . . E. VIRGINIA GRIMES...
...brought to Louis XV (Reginald Owen) as nominee for a place in a distinguished line of mis tresses, and ends shortly before the Revolution when, with Louis dead and his watchmaker-grandson on the throne, du Barry is led off to prison. In the interim, she has gone sleigh-riding in midsummer on snow contrived of sugar; made her pickaninny body-servant Governor of Provence; averted war with England; given her jewels to the poor; and presented herself at court in her nightgown. All of this is told with credibility if not with historic accuracy, and acted with superb vitality...