Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aboard his train to Washington. What danger, if any, had threatened the President during his New York City visit remained a deep secret to Secret Service and police. ¶The same day that the President had his heavily-guarded ride, Mrs. Roosevelt, swinging down Manhattan's Madison Avenue afoot, stopped into the hat shop of Lilly Dache. With ten minutes to spare before keeping an appointment, she tried on four hats, bought two. Said the sales-clerk who knew Mrs. Roosevelt of old: "She is one that either likes a thing or she doesn...
...Same day Representative O'Connor moved to get his investigation afoot with a $50,000 appropriation for expenses, Senator Black demanded $150,000 for a job that would throw the House show into the shade. To even matters, Senator Black got only a third of what he asked...
...pandemonium burst from loyal throats in cheer on cheer while the Royal Field Marshal was got in the shade of a pavilion and 9,000 warriors-a full-strength British war division-began marching, trotting, speeding and clanking past. Over one-half of this modern Army display was not afoot or ahorse. So-called "motor cavalry" dashed past in light cars. Heavy tanks saluted the King Emperor by turning their gun turrets with massive precision to the angle U. S. soldiers call "eyes right." After God Save the King had been played so softly that it sounded like a prayer...
Three weeks ago an idea dawned in the minds of the world's silver speculators. Last week it burst full upon them with the brightness of a newly risen sun. The New Deal-besides its large home schemes -has an even bigger scheme afoot: to make silver once more a world money metal. Beholding this sun, the silver world went wild and the New Deal had an international problem...
...than 200 shop windows. And when the looting started, police dropped their nightsticks, took out their guns. Five robbers were shot, one fatally. In a wholly irrelevant brawl, a white man was so badly beaten by Negroes that he died within 72 hours. With their streets swarming with police afoot, in squad cars and on horseback, the Harlem Merchants Association wildly telegraphed Governor Lehman at Albany for National Guardsmen...