Word: strolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry A. Wallace threw University welcome-mat-dusters into a tither early yesterday afternoon with an unannounced and unscheduled stroll through the Yard and Widener Library...
...think of himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink's supervision: to give Yale's library...
Every now & then, Nye Bevan gets away from his desk and takes a stroll along the seaside with several old cronies. He will stop at a stall to eat winkles, go wild on the swings, and will not miss a single peep show of the "What the Butler Saw" species. During one of these strolls, recently, Bevan dropped a penny into a fortune-telling slot machine. The note which the machine returned declared: "Not another personality is as sparkling as yours, nor a personality with such inherent righteousness...
...fall into a vacant stare and take the first opportunity of getting back into the talk." If the British custom of retiring after dinner is not observed in Mauretania, John Bull is encouraged to show firmness: "If Mr. Bull wishes to leave the drawing room, he must simply stroll from the room . . . and ask a servant to direct him to the cloak room...
...west by Ithaca, N.Y. and on the south by Annapolis, Md. And even in this narrow province there are local differences. Harvard men, say the Dartmouth authors, try to act indifferent; a Williams man "always manages to look as though he has just been out for a stroll to see how the new colt is faring...