Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain rises. Two musicians?the first violin and the cellist?are seated, chatting. Conductor Stokowski strolls vaguely in from the wings. He bows. Puzzled applause from the audience?murmurs of "But good heavens, Victoria, where is the orchestra? . . . Down behind that backdrop? . . . I think it is simply too quaint. . . ." That no orchestra lurks behind the backdrop is clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient...
...Bayard Brown is a man of about the average height, as elegantly dressed that night as he ever was for an Easter Sunday stroll on Fifth Avenue. His figure is rounded but his clothes fitted perfectly...
George Binney (leader of the 1924 Oxford arctic flight, holder of the furthest north flying record-N. L. 80 deg., 15 min.) : "He will stroll back to Europe, I have little doubt...
Only the Seniors are left and they, alas have lost the indefinable buoyancy of Spring. They stroll distractedly through the yard seeing nothing of the beauty around them, thinking, thinking, thinking how four years of knowledge can be crammed in one short week...
Next morning, the Home News published the announcement that ''a list of rhyming words is given here to aid in writing the last lines of the uncompleted limericks in yesterday's Journal and Graphic." Followed some words. The Journal limerick required a rhyme with "stroll" and "roll'; the editors of the Home News suggested "poll," "extol," "dole," "cajole," "condole," etc., carefully explaining that the first meant the head; the second, to praise in highest terms; the third, to give in small quantities; the fourth, to impose on by flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic...