Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these trusting souls, a stroll through some of the corridors on the top floor of Widener Library would come as a disturbing revelation...
Start, say from the Musee de duny, and stroll up the "Boul Mich" as far as the Jardin de Luxembourg. On the left is the Pantheon, proudly bearing its inscription Anx Grands Hommes la Patrie Reconnaissante. With these thoughts the boulevard must be crossed ; and down the Rue de Medicis, past the famous fountain of the same name, the massive square Odeon looms up across the intersecting Rue de Vaugirard. Along the near side runs a colonnade under which the booksellers still have their stalls as they used to long ago when the Odeon was called the Theatre...
Coolidge weather kept the visitor near the "chunk stove." When he 'did go out it was to help drive posts for a tent the Secret Service men erected near the house, to stroll up the road with Mrs. Coolidge to watch son John pitch horseshoes with the neighbors...
...After dinner he took a stroll, meeting a woman who accompanied him to a back street hotel...
...time sense; they are no longer the pampered children of the town, who may do everything, to the everlasting enjoyment of everybody. They seem to wear magic caps that render them invisible. Russian students, in particular, have changed entirely. There are many of them; but they do not stroll in groups up and down the Anlage; they do not argue-all at the same time- about socialization of land and proletarianization of the peasant; they no longer busy themselves despising every Corps student who passes them and whom they think more stupid than his own bulldog. Indeed the Corps student...