Word: strolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...week James Ramsay MacDonald can step out of No. 10 Downing St., stroll across the greensward to Buckingham Palace and "advise" King George to dissolve the House of Commons. In France power to block such dissolution is held by the Senate. In practice this joker has produced a tribe of Deputies 'and Senators in open conspiracy to keep their lucrative seats as long as possible...
...dapper, debonair Tugwell asserted that he was a real dirt farmer albeit the soil on his shoes came from an early morning stroll through his apple orchard and this week, Washington's No. 1 man, Richberg reveals he is a born conservative, dyed in the purple and to the manor bern. Meanwhile the sudden change fro m "End Poverty," to "End Prosperity," in Sinclair's slogan for California has resulted in a rebuff from Roosevelt which materially damages that picturesque purveyor of political panaceas' chances of election. An entertaining spectacle this, in all its ironic humor, but pertinent to this...
...When one considers the quantity of public prayer, the number of people who come within its range, the meaning it might have, the atrocious carelessness with which its possible power is commonly handled, the irreverent nonchalance with which many stroll into and dally over it. one welcomes any serious endeavor to come to intelligent terms with...
...love to all young comers. Every morning from 6 to 12 he has heard confessions, given communion. He is tall, grey-fringed, smiling, athletic. His day begins at 4:30 a. m. with a cold shower, includes, summer & winter, an afternoon swim in the campus lake, an evening stroll...