Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taking a bath. (On the roof of her house. King David was taking an evening walk on the roof...
...present day undergraduates have ever heard of him, although most of the professors and veterans of the Square can remember the days when John used to wander through the Yard and the dormitories, crying his wares, "'r'nges 'n' b'nanas," or when he used to solemnly walk three times around the plate before a baseball game...
...only, however, was the student forbidden to put his nose outside the door on Sunday to take a walk, he was not even allowed to dress up on occasions, even if these occasions were not on the Sabbath. In fact elegant dressing seems to have been one of the worst crimes on the Puritan Harvard calendar, as may be seen from the following...
...then in the very well done third act, finds that the action has apparently been progressing all the time. The final curtain is a genuine surprise to anyone who has taken the play as a polite little society drama in which the heroine would eventually discover that cats who walk alone often grow weary. If Nina had returned to her diamond-in-the-rough Mr. Brett the result would be more soothing but also less realistic...
...recall the fable about the old man, the boy and the donkey? They were walking along a roadside when a passerby said, "It's too bad to have that little boy walking, so he was put on the donkey. Soon another passerby exclaimed that he considered it atrocious that an able-bodied boy should ride and let an old man walk. So the old man was ensconced on the beast with the boy. A short distance further on a passerby said quite indignantly that it was cruel for the poor animal to have such a load...