Word: strolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, suddenly, nine hours had passed like a distorted dream, and the wind-god raged moaning up the northeast coast toward Pensacola. No more would sport coats and plumed hats" stroll at Hialea Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...
Inspection! The Herr President did not stroll past the guardsmen, chatting with one of his ministers as a "civilian" would have done. Stopping before each soldier he inspected his equipment with a swift kindling glance. Upon one soldier whose right boot was but indifferently polished the President bestowed a curt rebuke, greeted with a smile and handshake three of his favorite guardsmen whom he found impeccable...
...silence down the path which led into the woods. Down that path I had seen them go so many times together, just like this, his arm around her waist, as attentive as a young husband. They would, when they were alone at Oyster Bay, fix a little lunch and stroll down that path to have a little picnic together in the woods. Now they took their sorrow there. . . ." But he did not leave them there. "The nearest I saw him come to breaking down was, I think, at Columbus. There he had been talking to a large crowd...
This Lewis N. White was as deliberate as Clothier, but in another fashion. He did not stroll. He lolled. He seemed to drawl with his feet. Between points he took his ease, but as soon as the ball was put into play he became surprisingly galvanized. He beat Takeiichi Harada, seeded Japanese, and got into the finals. His match against Champion Tilden was not exciting. The report had gotten about the clubhouse that the champion was planning to make a four-set match of it and to run the Texan ragged with drives to the corners, trap shots, and every...
...Signalizing the advent of summer weather, the President went forth on his daily stroll wearing a straw...