Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership in the British Snail-Watching Society is rigorously limited to those devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient," says Heaton. The complete conchophilist must know snails in their nocturnal ramblings-as they scale the Himalayas of a graveled garden walk, patiently penetrate the jungles of a zinnia border, or chew the bloom off prize winning Gloire de Dijon roses...
...tossing pitchforks at radio's holy heifers. Last week, he suddenly stopped his broadcast, announced soberly: "Friends, in the public interest, I figure this is the time when you people at home are getting restless. Now during the following two or three minutes you can get up, walk around, twist the dial, see if there's a better program on CBS, go in and look at the baby. Nothing will happen while you're gone...
Three months ago he arrived at Manhattan's Institute for the Crippled and Disabled (which he had read about in Betsey Barton's book), announced firmly that he meant to walk by summer's end. The institute's walking course normally takes nine months. Said Medical Director George G. Deaver: "Certainly...
Wagner: Die Walküre-Duet (Act I Scene 3) (Helen Traubel and Emery Darcy with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Helen Traubel's Sieglinde is more vigorous but less musically sure than the old Lotte Lehmann version. Performance: good...
...spent a fair chunk of the $53 million raised by two public stock issues. Having survived infancy, it was ready to walk...