Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cady, who works the Coolidge farm at Plymouth on shares with the President (it is assessed at $700), seemed more concerned with the chores than the first officer of the realm. Once or twice he puckered his nose when he noticed Mr. Coolidge stoop to pick up something, then walk to a large pile of junk, old iron, odds and ends, between the house and the barn. It developed that the President had salvaged some rusty wire nails...
...matter of fact, Mrs. Taft and I gave a luncheon party to ten guests yesterday, and I also went for a long walk. I go for a walk every day and I am going for one as soon as I finish dictating replies to my morning mail...
...Yesterday a freakish stunt, today it is a mode of travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...
...place of rowing this afternoon, the Crimson oarsmen were sent for a five-mile walk by Coach Haines. As yet the University shell has not been put through a time trial, although it is possible that Captain Winthrop's men will be put through their paces for time tomorrow if the weather improves. This afternoon brought the worst weather conditions with which the eights have had to contend. No changes have been made in any of the boats with the exception of the 'shift occasioned by Watts' blistered hand...
...students' leisure day they would not be in the predicament so eloquently described by the recent report of university professors condemning intercollegiate football as now conducted. That report reads like the expressions of dismay of the "wets" on the morning after prohibition. The professor engaged in his Addison walk of contemplation has bumped into the stadium and cannot imagine how it came into existence. Fear, which is the child of ignorance, cries. "Down with it," but second thought suggests that the institution is here and that the sooner it is brought into line with the general purpose of the college...