Word: wander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable feature of Florida, and one which last week threw important, bone-mending Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee into trouble with Manhattan doctors, is the shuffle of decrepit northerners through the State. St. Petersburg is full of garrulous oldsters who all day long wander from bench to bench recounting their symptoms. Miami streets are punctuated with the homes of colonic irrigators. Open air evangelists place ramps at curbs so that the palsied and the gouty can comfortably trundle their wheelchairs towards sanctity and health...
...little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters of Memorial Hall...
...mistress to the house, and while Catherine Schmidt kept a motorcycle engine roaring in the cypress shaded courtyard to drown all noise, Georges Sarret shot priest & mistress from behind a screen. They drove into Marseilles where Murderer Sarret purchased a bathtub, then sent the terrified Schmidt sisters back to wander for three nights about the house with its two reeking corpses. On the fourth day Georges Sarret returned with 26 gallons of sulphuric acid in the back of his car. The bodies were crushed in the bubbling vat until even the bones and teeth had dissolved, then the thick sludge...
...without inconvenience, to a condition in which it could serve as a museum to house the immense store of Harvardiana which lies hidden somewhere in the vaults of Widener. It could become the headquarters for the direction of the horde of visitors in the summer who at present wander about aimlessly from the new chapel to the glass flowers; also for the distribution of literature dealing with the history, traditions, and existing features of the College and the University...
Adams House will become temporarily a cabaret on the night of Friday, December fifteenth, for the Adams House Christmas Dinner-Dance. Jacques Mar-Iowa and his Newport Casino Orchestra will provide the music for the dance and will also play during the dinner when they will wander in small groups among the tables. Both the orchestra and the attendants will be dressed to costumes for the gala occasion. Dancing will be from 8.30 to 2 o'clock...