Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loaned by the Louvre, which shows a long-maned white horse drinking peacefully in a stream while in the background a nude Tahitian girl rides another horse back from the stream to the pasture, and The Call, now the property of Wildenstein & Co. in which three half-clad Tahitians stroll under slender trees against a dark tropical landscape...
...this was on Sept. 15 and in Lancaster. Not until Sept. 29 did two ladies stopping at the Buccleuch Arms Hotel, Moffat, Scotland, notice, on strolling near The Devil's Beef Tub, chunks which they as ladies had no stomach to examine. In a decorous way they intimated on returning from their stroll to the Buccleuch Arms that things were not as they should be in The Devil's Beef Tub. Instantly the place was swarming with strong-stomached tourists, Scottish villagers and police inspectors. The services of Sir Bernard Spilsbury were not required. Scotland...
Whereupon, afternoon coming on, we to lunch at Maison Louis, which serves delicious unsalted butter, and by and by I alone to stroll along Fifth Avenue and was much surprised to meet---- whom I have not seen in five years and all in one breath she tells me she is married now and I ought to see the African Art Exhibition and the Flower Show and I ought to see her "Junior" too. We to see Junior, and the little one did want to come so much we all three to the Flower Show...
Heavily muffled and bundled against the cold, Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah is taking his daily stroll in Washington's Rock Creek Park. He is set upon by two young women in men's clothes. One pinions his arms. The other fumbles beneath his heavy overcoat in search of his wallet. The Senator breaks loose, casts about with his cane, whistles shrilly. Foiled, the two young women turn, flee...
Thence, up and I did pour could water into the basin and did refresh myself and so, very sprightly, to breakfast on bran and jam and muffins and thence to stroll along the River whereupon I did meet--and we did marvel at the weather; after which preliminaries we took to examining the morning news. "Experiments have been conducted by Probation authorities," one encouraging bit did read, "and as a result it has been demonstrated that 'bad boys' are no different from other boys, except that the former have been caught." And I thought to myself how wonderful is science...