Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warm weather parks are better hunting grounds than pubs. With the increase of U.S. troops in London, no girl need stroll alone. More aggressive than Tommies, or even the fast-working Canadians, a U.S. soldier does not hesitate to leap off a Hyde Park bench and catch a passing pretty around the waist. Average forgiveness time, they report, is three minutes for civilians, somewhat longer for girls in uniform. For daylight dates, soldiers like the prestige of uniforms. But they tend to choose unmilitary women for the evening: service girls must report back to barracks by 11 o'clock...
...long, polished-floored, white-walled dining hall to the glassed-in porch furnished with comfortable wicker chairs and tables with magazines, and they read or write, play with a bulldog puppy named Winston Churchill or go out on the stone porch to play ping-pong with WAAFs. Some stroll out on the thick, ruglike lawn and bang croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while you are here." Officers have picked...
Enlisted Men. After dinner trim, healthy-looking boys flood through the high gate of the estate's massive stone wall, soft-shoe it down narrow sidewalks and attend the local pay-as-you-enter dances-the Town Hall or rest center-pick up local girls and stroll through the town park. Soldiers crowd local movie houses, though better and newer pictures are usually showing in the recreation building on the estate. But there is an agreement with British distributors that no civilian can see camp movies and boys cannot take girls. With natives or officers, all are amazingly polite...
Said the Smithsonian: Ainu women, properly dressed, could stroll unnoticed along any U.S. Main Street. Ainu men are hairy and large-headed, with faces strikingly like those of Leo Tolstoy, Alfred Tennyson, or Orson Welles. The almost beardless Japanese point to the Ainus' hirsuteness as evidence of subhuman status...
...when he was supposed to visit the White House, he arrived at his office with muddy shoes, rolled-up pant legs, two ties hitched together in place of a belt. He had been on a stroll in muddy Rock Creek Park, had forgotten to change...