Word: strolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides his crowded family in Moscow there were friends, and their friends. Chekhov bought a dilapidated country house outside the city, to get away from visitors, soon found his household was as crowded as ever. It was a relief to get away occasionally for a quiet stroll in a graveyard. Chattering women gave him a special pain. "What a lot of idiots there are among ladies!" he exclaimed. "People have got so used to it that they no longer notice it." He liked such misogynisms as: "If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry." Chekhov finally married...
British money has always talked decisively in Portugal and last week it was appropriate that Mr. William Shepherd Morrison, exceptionally brilliant Financial Secretary to the British Treasury, should stroll over to the Foreign Office and there assume chairmanship of a conference of 26 European States who have pledged non-interference in the Spanish Civil War (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Since it is through Portugal that the principal munitions supplies of the Spanish Whites arrive, and since the Portuguese Government under no conceivable circumstances would have failed to send a representative to the conference if pressed...
Royalty. Ruled off the U. S. swimming team for drinking last fortnight, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week went for a sight-seeing stroll with a friend, met onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst at Netherlands Palace. Their chat in English: Prince: Is that the famous swimmer? ... I have heard so much about...
...Dunster acquaintance of ours, who delights in outdoor interludes, last Thursday evening forsook Dunster's costume affair for a stroll along the river's edge. In the course of their wandering he and the young lady accompanying him saw fit to fall into the Charles...
...Gorrie is identified as the first successful maker of artificial ice in the U. S. Not long after Dr. Gorrie died in 1855 famed Botanist-Physician Alvan Wentworth Chapman and Harvard's even more celebrated Botanist Asa Gray passed Gorrie's grave during a stroll. Said Chapman: "Gray, there is the grave of the man whom we all recognize as the superior...