Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trekked across the Park. High-school youngsters (nonvoters) were present in droves, and we saw a great many families (with three or four children, some toddlers) hurrying to get there in time for the glamorous entertainment promised. Add to these the hundreds of adults who, regardless of politics, would walk miles to see a Hollywood star, and we have a crowd made up, in great part, of movie admirers, not Dewey voters. "Ginger Rogers will introduce" were magic words. Yes, it was the stars (their attendance advertised days in advance) who drew 'the crowd. . . . Without them, Dewey would have...
...since then has been in & out of town and terribly busy. But he's going to start in the pool again now. It's good for him. He is a powerful swimmer and that gives him a good workout. . . . The buoyancy of the water enables him to walk and he gets exercise there that he can't get any other...
...certain amount of training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, more as a walk-on, more as an ingenue (directed by George Kaufman). She also worked as an usherette, and got a job modeling for Harper's Bazaar...
...Lessner. Author Lessner, 46, is an anti-Nazi from way back. For years he kept a jump ahead of the Gestapo in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Trapped in Norway in 1940, he was "questioned" by the Gestapo for 35 days; it was seven months before he was able to walk again. In 1941 he managed to reach the U.S. Phantom Victory is partly ferocious satire, partly deadly earnest foreboding, but throughout it proclaims Author Lessner's ruthlessly simple conviction : "I say that Germany should be destroyed...
...soldiers' bordello in the heart of Oslo's streamlined business section slipped four Paris trulls. Well-bribed German sentries let them pass. Members of the underground guided them on their four-night walk to Sweden. In Stockholm last week, over their first good meal in nearly a year, chunky, raucous Suzette and waspish, salty Marianne told the four girls' story...