Word: gait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ever since my father took me as a small boy to visit Hampton ..." Those words, uttered last week, created for those who read them a curious picture. They saw a certain very rich man, old even then, with a sharp, meagre face and deliberate gait, dragging by the hand a small, disagreeable-looking boy in a homely tunic, who cast terrified glances behind him at faces that leered from entries and windows-agreeable faces enough, but black as tar, with large white teeth, white eyeballs, which that backward-staring boy found inconceivably horrible. John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller...
...Speaker asks if the pleasure of the House is that the doors be opened. The House, enveloped in pseudo-mystery, jokingly gives its assent. A burly sergeant-at-arms is despatched to admit the patient Black Rod and, as he goes, he walks with an almost insolently leisurely gait. The doors are opened and in sweeps Black Rod, proceeds to the Speaker's Chair, executing en route three magnificent bows which wring continuous mirth from the Commons. Black Rod, having arrived in front of the Speaker's Chair, informs the Speaker that "this honorable House" is commanded...
...course of the Conservatives is well fixed by precedent and platform. Uncertainty of tenure is gone, for no fresh issues seem likely to lower on the clear sky of English politics. Altogether, Parliament has given up that gambling spirit of a few months ago for a staid and steady gait upon an unadventurous road...
...Columbus, Ohio, Charles W. ("Chick") Harley, remembered by the football world for the crooked smile and the crooked, sidestepping gait that were his when dazzling broken-field runs won two Conference championships for Ohio State (1916, 1917), last week besought a court to strike from its record lunacy proceedings that were brought against him, successfully...
...Calvin's Campaign" for the Republican nomination in 1924 marches on at a surprisingly steady and sure-footed gait-so steady, so surefooted that politicians and public alike are moved to wonder and to examine its propelling powers...