Word: gait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daring student on the first floor. Hearing strange noises in the study he picked up a bedroom slipper and clad in his pink pajamas ventured from the sanctity of his Doudoir. He came fact to face with a slim, dark, foreign man with a strong breath and an unsteady gait. The latter said he was looking for the man in the suite next door whose available cash he had just appropriated. The youth in the pajamas was not to be fooled however. When he lifted his bedroom slipper threateningly, the mysterious marauder ran out of the room, narrowly escaping...
...White Eagle is a musical play with dignified and ponderous gait like an upholstered elephant. The plot (from Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings...
...overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is accomplished with a great pounding of subtitles, and a cast whose gait is not always, but usually, smooth and rapid. Among its members are Lewis Stone as Menelaos and Ricardo Cortez as a sultry but persuasive Paris. Now We're in the Air. Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have for some time been in the throes of a series of adventures...
...pretty good horse and had a "kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
...close astern in a launch and watched his men closely as they sped down the course. There was very little splashing and the boat rode with remarkable smoothness. A 36 beat was registered at the start, then John Watts '28, University stroke, lowered the beat to 32, maintaining that gait until close to the finish, when he raised it again...