Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Results were forthcoming, disastrous to collegiate femininity. Man was loath to walk and "co-eds" heckled with burly Jehus over the taxi fare. From the silken folds of modish dancing frocks handbags were produced at the door. Both sexes furthermore had a chance of experiencing that great American institution of the younger generation-"getting stuck"-from another angle. And at popular eating houses after the ball the reprisal was completed. Men exhausted the possibilities of the menu while their fair escorts confined themselves to the right hand side of the carte...
...nevertheless, the opinion of the college youth held by Bill Stonaker, veteran engineer on the Junction branch of the Pennsylvania railroad which hauls all of the boys to Princeton who do not walk, has taken a sudden jump for the better in the past few years...
...Oxford, and a useless citizen, talking through his nose, when he comes back. But if, on the other hand, he is intelligent and sensitive, he will find, clinging to Oxford like the thick leaves along its walls, a glory that is green in every year. He will soon walk without nervousness and without arrogance along its tonsured lawns. He will drink, perhaps, at bump suppers until he has become intoxicated. On his individual behavior as on the particular behavior of his 31 merry or pious, ugly or presentable, agile or clumsy, drunken or abstaining, riotous or serene companions, will depend...
...press conference the President said he had had "something of importance" to tell, but that he had forgotten what it was. Instead of becoming annoyed with himself, he laughed and took Rob Roy (white collie) out for a walk...
...Every member of the school shall walk at least one mile a day, unless a freshet, earthquake, or some other calamity prevent. The bounds to the north are marked by a stake, also those to the south and west...