Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union League chefs had outdone themselves. Dinner was sumptuous. Afterwards, the diners removed to the Club's auditorium, Lincoln Hall, where some 3,000 persons and personages were packed in a space designed for 1,200. President Sproul brought all to their feet when he said to President Coolidge...
When the House reassembled Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister again rose to reply Ito the Laborite attack. Prime Minister Baldwin sat, as calmly as ever, with his feet on the treasury table. Again rose the cries "We want Baldwin! We want the organ-grinder, not the monkey...
Came the army to Slough on the very outskirts of London. Here Labor sympathisers held a picture show lor the weary old "soldiers" of the army, while the local maidens, also Labor, staged a dance for the younger set, sore feet...
Rarely does a Manhattan audience get to its feet once it has arrived and settled itself, but the better element* in a Manhattan audience did so last week when an oldster came out on the stage of Carnegie Hall and with just a little difficulty made his way across and up on to the conductor's stand. He was 82-year-old Leopold Auer, teacher of such famed violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist. For the second time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public...
...class room . . . children whispering and scratching their pens as the sun swings a golden ruler through the chalk notes . . . bells ringing for recess . . . the musty smell of a class room after lunch with bits of greasy sandwich wrappings in the aisles . . . more bells and the shuffle of feet going downstairs . . . two ratty brats squirming at their desks, writing out "I must learn to be polite and not to pass notes" . . . through the hot passages where cleaning women stir the dust into corners . . . . the sudden fresh darkness outside...