Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennis enthusiasts filled the lawn courts, and the golfers roamed from sand traps to the 19th hole. Many, of course, were content to wander about, shake hands, indulge, and just look. Every convenience was available to insure all such activities. The police, for example, cheerfully filled in at the softball game when players took brief dashes to the lobster tables...
...name Gwen Verdon. But Gwen herself had worked too long and too hard for personal success to let it turn her head. Being in the public eye makes her vaguely uncomfortable and selfconscious, as though she were still a little girl in high corrective boots. She would rather wander through the Fulton fish market than sit signing autographs at Sardi's, and she is probably happiest of all when she is backstage at Yankees, feeling herself a part of the show's color and action. Says Director Abbott: "She's a complete jewel-quick, indefatigable, cooperative...
What does the music tourist have to choose from in Europe? He may wander through the Alps to the Swiss town of Fribourg, where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen...
...Yale is the difference in the examination procedure itself. At a designated time, students pick up bluebooks and copies of the exam in one room. They can then go to any classroom, lounge, or seminar room in the school, except, of course, the library. Examinations are not proctored. Students wander through the corridors, smoking and mulling. The Student Council provides coffee and doughnuts for those in need of refreshment...
...dialogue, in fact, seems to be one of the strong points of the film. But when you think about it afterwards, you realize there wasn't much to the words after all: it was all Bogy and Baby. The remaining characters, who wander in and out gratuitously getting shot, poisoned and otherwise mistreated, all do a good job, too, mere foils though they...