Word: strolled
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Only the Seniors are left and they, alas have lost the indefinable buoyancy of Spring. They stroll distractedly through the yard seeing nothing of the beauty around them, thinking, thinking, thinking how four years of knowledge can be crammed in one short week...
Next morning, the Home News published the announcement that ''a list of rhyming words is given here to aid in writing the last lines of the uncompleted limericks in yesterday's Journal and Graphic." Followed some words. The Journal limerick required a rhyme with "stroll" and "roll'; the editors of the Home News suggested "poll," "extol," "dole," "cajole," "condole," etc., carefully explaining that the first meant the head; the second, to praise in highest terms; the third, to give in small quantities; the fourth, to impose on by flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic...
...these trusting souls, a stroll through some of the corridors on the top floor of Widener Library would come as a disturbing revelation...
Start, say from the Musee de duny, and stroll up the "Boul Mich" as far as the Jardin de Luxembourg. On the left is the Pantheon, proudly bearing its inscription Anx Grands Hommes la Patrie Reconnaissante. With these thoughts the boulevard must be crossed ; and down the Rue de Medicis, past the famous fountain of the same name, the massive square Odeon looms up across the intersecting Rue de Vaugirard. Along the near side runs a colonnade under which the booksellers still have their stalls as they used to long ago when the Odeon was called the Theatre...
Coolidge weather kept the visitor near the "chunk stove." When he 'did go out it was to help drive posts for a tent the Secret Service men erected near the house, to stroll up the road with Mrs. Coolidge to watch son John pitch horseshoes with the neighbors...