Word: strolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereafter, we were taken regularly by our parents to the opera as part of our education, which was very rigid and very circumspect. We were never allowed to leave our seats ... to stroll in the lobby with our more sophisticated friends. We were never allowed to go into the refreshment room, save at Christmas time for a holiday...
...portents for the grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city's parks, well shaded with ombú, palm, ceiba, and shiny-leafed magnolias, were crowded with lovers, fashionable ladies with fashionable dogs, plain people out for a stroll. Many a piropeador audibly admired the spring styles which spurned the New Look and kept legs before the male eye. Buenos Aires cemeteries, always a favored gathering place for somber Argentines, were unusually crowded, and tombs were cluttered with waxy calla lilies...
...come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
Born in Piacenza (in North Italy) in 1691, Pannini went to Rome at 26 to learn figure painting in the style of Salvatore Rosa. After classes, he would stroll out from the Eternal City for long looks at the ruins which ringed it like a crum bling shell. Tumbling, ivied walls in scribed with ancient names and victories, pillars overlooking the wilderness or sprawled broken like dead giants in the grass, and marble steps descending into the sod inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations...
Peals of girlish laughter had definitely replaced the monotonous buzz of crickets in a small sector of the Radcliffe Quadrangle last night. The transition even raised a smile beneath the facial foliage of a bearded octogenarian, a vesperian landmark with his dachshund on a Walker Street stroll...