Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's astute Director Mirski, an old hand at presenting local artists to Boston society, eliminated the usual opening-day cocktails and canapes for the Bloom exhibition. He hung the more cadaverish canvases upstairs, on the assumption that anybody who could walk upstairs could stand what he would...
...Secretary remembers: "Father knew everybody in town-the harness maker, the policeman, the garbage collector ... A walk up Main Street used to be an ordeal. Father said, 'Now come on, Dean, we're going down to the post office.' Well, I knew that was a morning shot to hell...
...like most Hungarians, loved wedding feasts that lasted well into the next day. He indignantly ruled that there would be no more weddings on Saturday; he wanted all his flock fit for Mass on Sunday. Once he called in a young chaplain and said: "Last night I observed you walking along the river bank with a widow. First, I do not think it proper that a young chaplain walk alone on a lonely road at night; second, I do not think it correct for him to walk with a young widow; and third, if you did these things, you should...
Stocky, brown-haired Robert Proctor, the 23-year-old team leader, was not the sort to walk away from trouble. Handy with his fists, fluent in Texmex Spanish,* he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz, before he went south to help stamp out aftosa. He had handled plenty of tough situations; he figured he could handle this...
...almost three years, twelve-year-old Martin had been living in hospitals or convalescent homes. He is back home now in the fifth-floor, $44-a-month Manhattan walk-up apartment with his mother & father, grandmother, younger sister and older brother. Martin still suffers from rheumatic heart disease (caused by rheumatic fever), is still bedfast, still needs the kind of medical care that hospitals give. He is getting that kind of care now at home...