Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Coolidge, after spending a weekend at Madison, Wis., as guest of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, was asked how he passes the time at Cedar Island Lodge. Said he: "Eat breakfast. Take a little walk. Read. Eat lunch. Walk. Read. Eat dinner. Walk. Read...
...duty of Ulysses Simpson Grant III (grandson) to walk observantly through the greenery of forest and pasture out of which the great parks of Washington, D. C., are carved. Last week he, director of public parks, started a vigorous campaign against "spooning, necking and petting, noticeably prevalent in darkened automobiles at night in the parks." He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children...
...happened to walk down the west side of Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 40th streets, Manhattan, on almost any summer day of recent years likely as not you were the object of a penetrating glance from a young woman standing on the steps of the New York Public Library. Having glanced, she probably made a mark in the notebook she held in her hand. She may have noted the color of your stockings, the cut of your suit, the length of your skirt, the shape of your hat. You had become a statistic...
...never was he so proud of them as last September, when "Rudy," their favorite fox terrier, unhappily demised. Down by the golf course went Paul and William with the remains of Rudy. They dug a trench and raised a headstone. They inscribed: "He left us." Publisher Block likes to walk, puffing ever so slightly, from the house to the headstone. It is proof to him that his sons are absorbing friendship...
...White in a magazine piece which he sold two years ago said: "Smith has exactly the same faults and virtues as marked Jackson and Lincoln. . . . Because Cleveland, Mc-Kinley, Roosevelt and Coolidge knew the game-the dirty game if you will-they avoided many pitfalls and were able to walk with the children of light much further than they would have walked had they not learned much from the angels of darkness. . .." "Smith took orders from Tammany until he was able to give orders . . . and when he went to the New York State Constitutional Convention [1915] he was fairly free...