Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oxford man, scorner of the pedestrian scholarship of his time, indefatigable linguist, doctor of theology and doctor miraculorum (wonders) at Paris, friend of Bishop Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, and of Guy de Foulques (later Pope Clement IV), this Franciscan monk, Roger Bacon, had few intellectual peers in his century, whether or not he invented the contrivances dubiously attributed to him: a telescope, burning glasses, spectacles. His most popularly famed experiments were with gunpowder, of which he was the first important historian rather than the "inventor...
Comes winter and with it boardwalks and debutantes, theses and racoons--and Eleanora Sears awalking. From Boston to Providence, from the Biltmore to Beacon Street and all the time with swinging arms and vigorous stride. Like hour exams Miss Sears' pedestrian expeditions have become traditional, if superfluous. She walks fastest who walks alone degenerates not only into a trite axiom but even into a prevarication when Miss Sears takes to the road; a tennis star and four--count 'em four--pacers accompany her, and behind trail two "massive automobiles". This is walking de luxe. But if Trudie merits a jazz...
...survey of New York's 47,128 accidents during 1925, wherein 1,981 persons were killed and 54,398 injured. The most dangerous setting is this: A straight, level road, dry and hard.* Clear weather. Between five and six of a Saturday afternoon. You will run down a pedestrian about three times as often as you will hit another car. He will have been walking, running or playing in the street twice as often as just crossing it at an intersection. In 18.5% of cases, he will have been crossing the street properly at an intersection; in only...
...Miss Brewster's Millions" is an excellent picture. It is a triumph. And the man with the pedestrian protector is a hero. They are all heroes--except Bebe. She is a heroine--and if you know of a better heroine--The Lamb's Club--well, she is rather amusing--quite amusing. But one doesn't go to the Lambs' Club. "Miss Brewster's Millions" is most entertaining...
...buns they would long since have been adumbrated by the shadows of the passing years. They were idiots, and are remembered. None of them complained of his life work, nor did any of them try to convince an Ohio legislature that he was a conformist, a complacent mind, pedestrian on well worn paths...