Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affair. Now I know that he did right, for he is the President of Russia. I am just a peasant who has a good son. When I go to Moscow I never ride in his automobile. Such a woman as I should walk...
Under the rules existant at that time players and coaches were permitted to walk along the side lines. Haughton had given Kennard a warning signal and Kennard moved along the side lines, always keeping the Harvard center in a direct line between him- self and the center of the Yale goal...
...Caspar Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth...
...world knows now that she sings the Vissi d'arte lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget the beauty of her as Sieglinde sitting still at the table listening half-hypnotized to Siegmund's narrative; the silver radiance of her as Ocatavian bringing in the rose; the iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion...
...contrast, is "The Tarn," another psychological study, but in darker vein. Two men, one successful, the other not, one patronizing, the other resentful, walk in the gathering shadows by a mysterious lake. Suddenly the resentment of years surges up in the one; he strangles his companion, flicks him into the black water. Dazed, he stumbles home and to sleep, but dies of nightmare...