Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accounts a worthy pub which stood where the carbarn is today, and it took an hour, when the roads were in good condition, to get to Boston. In the Spring, when the roads were thick and deep with mud, it was a common experience for the passengers to climb out of their coach and lift the wheels out of the mire. The service was more or less irregular, and persons waiting for the omnibus at the Cambridge end, were able to pass the time pleasantly in the tavern until the time of their departure...
Born of a Cleveland longshoreman, Comrade Ruthenberg found in elementary school and business college education enough to climb in rapid strides from factory worker and clerk to newspaper correspondent and editor. In 1909 he took to his heart the pink flag of socialism; held it there while it turned perceptibly...
...classes, one which demands nothing of the audience but open eyes and attentive years, and the other which makes the audience meet it half-way," stated Andre Charlot, well known as the originator and producer of Charlot's Revues, to an interviewer who was still puffing after the arduous climb up the spiral stairway which twists from the floor back stage up toward the mase of curtains and back drops to the dressing rooms of the New Park Theatre...
...been using down here, when they gave up playing on Jarvis and Holmes Fields." Dennis reminisced. "Those were fine fields, up where the Law School is now; and they used to have some fine ball games on Holmes. When we couldn't get in we used to climb up in the willow trees and see the game fine...
...thus described: "Should a wench but breathe upon him in the dark, he would bury himself till the smell of her were off him." Aethelwold rides off on his mission, to a lusty-spirited folk tune, sung by the chorus (and later, through the corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings, "and I ride and I ride." He will say to the maiden: "If thou be as fair as men say, do on thy hood and come along o' me; and sooner than a weasel can suck a duck's egg, thou shalt be Queen...