Word: wanderlied
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...Festival-goer has hours to kill, he can take a joy ride on the Thames or lounge around one of the thirteen festival restaurants. He may even wander through House and Gardens or a New Schools Pavilion...
...which means that Sunday's performance was a rare one. The major recording companies, as well as most professional artists, shy away from pre-Bachian music because of its dubious commercial value. Small organizations like the Harvard-Radcliffe group can gratify music lovers and students alike by continuing to wander off the beaten track. --lower case
Characters wander in & out of The Enclosure as if it were a transient hotel. Its reigning matriarch, Mrs. Halstead, dies, and with her goes the grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow her to hell." Those who survive are a sad lot: her son Christopher, a bilious minister devoted to the comforts of the flesh; her grandson Christopher Jr., a well-read neurotic who fritters himself away in hypochondria; her neighbor Moylan Stacy, an undertaker new to the Enclosure and representing...
...accepted system of attending a Soldiers Field sports convention, is not to get all wrapped up in one event, but to wander discreetly around the playing fields, savouring the flavor of each game. A track meet is all very well and good but there is no use sitting around while the public address announcer pleads that "all quarter-mile relay men please report to the starting line at the judges' table"; just wander over to the football enclosure and size up next year's team. Or try and dope out the intricacies of a rugby match, or question the eyesight...
...Those girls should realize this is a civilized city," stated one, "before they wander out in hideous red stockings...