"Rink" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1874, while the Government had been carried on for years by a Conservative majority of less than twenty-six, showing the importance of organization. At night Mr. Gladstone attended a great public meeting in the Plumstead Skating Rink. On his entrance the whole audience rose and cheered for several minutes. An address was presented, expressing regret at his retirement, and the pride they would ever feel at having been associated with his name and fame. Mr. Gladstone ...
— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook
... a good deal to say of the ridicule lavished upon old maids and bachelors among the various peoples and races, and Rink has recorded not a few tales on this head from the various tribes of the Eskimo—in these stories, which are of a more or less trifling and outre character, bachelors are unmercifully derided ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... The public skating-rink is fairly free from objectionable features, but boys and girls attending without proper chaperons often form undesirable acquaintances. Women of the street and their male companions often attend. Juvenile court ...
— The Social Emergency - Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals • Various
... I'm going to do when I get home," he said, "I am going to get a job as an instructor in a roller skating rink." ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
... rink," she exclaimed eagerly. "He no so mooch fool as you tink him—no, no. See, senor, he busy eat all de time dat you talk; he has de meal, you has de fin' air. Vich ees de bettair, de air or de meat, senor? Bueno, I tink de ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... afternoon before her departure a party was made up for the rink, but at the last moment Darsie excused herself, and declared a wish to stay at home. There were several pieces of sewing and mending which were necessary, there was a letter to be written to Margaret France, and a farewell ...
— A College Girl • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... kindergartens are followed by a playful introduction into the preliminaries of knowledge and of the various manual occupations. This is followed up by agreeable mental and physical work, connected with gymnastic exercises and free play in the skating rink and swimming establishments; drills, wrestling, and exercises for both sexes follow and supplement one another. The aim is to raise a healthy, hardy, physically and mentally developed race. Step by step follows ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel |
