Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was an Old China Movement, but the whole idea rather intrigued him. All in all he felt rather ignorant about that great blot on the world's map which was always printed in a bright yellow, and figuring he had better snap up the chance, he decided to stroll over to Emerson D about eight o'clock and see what the whole thing was about. Maybe Chinese girls didn't all wear pig-tails...
Gimpy's only fault is that he likes to land on the way home, sometimes leads his recruits into a grassy plot for a rest and stroll, while he stumps around, gabbling officiously. But no one in Fort Monmouth's pigeon company will admit that these fine feathered soldiers ever hitch rides on Army trucks...
When mess call blows, we stroll into the mess hall, sit down and eat like pigs. Talk about service-we are waited on by K. P.'s. Dishes of food are on the tables. We'd die if we had to wash our own mess kits. In fact we don't even have mess kits, all we have to do is eat. The plates, hotel china, are washed by cooks in the automatic dishwashers. . . . Honestly one cannot possibly exaggerate the utter comfort we have...
...help their British hosts with holiday entertainments. In the crypt-shelter of one London church a nativity play, The Christmas Story, was scheduled to be performed by a German-refugee cast wholly composed of non-Aryans who are Christians. Traditional British carol singing, usually done by amateur groups who stroll from door to door, take up a collection which they donate to charity, and are invited in for drinks, was abandoned this year because of the black-out and night bombing. Officials did all they could to see that Christmas celebrations took place indoors...
...World War I veteran (having lost his teeth and acquired a grating voice from a gas attack), a two-time Oscar winner (Come and Get It, Kentucky). Practically never on the screen without an old man's makeup, the real Brennan can still stroll unnoticed along the streets of Hollywood, a slight, sandy-haired, balding man who might be a real-estate salesman...