Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the largest and perhaps the most blatant exhibit at the convention. Huge electric signs gleamed: "CHAMPION OF THE WORLD," "WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER." Printed matter told how the Tribune had licked Mayor Thompson & friends; how, because of the Tribune, "Chicago can again walk proudly among the cities!-and the class in advertising may now step up and learn a lesson from the politicians...
Next day Hagen was better. He had plaster on his blister and he was missing fewer three-foot putts. The crowd, usually annoyed by Hagen's lolling walk, his smile, his Americanisms, his arrogance, and his frequent cigarets, was cheering him now for being a sport; when he played out of a bunker at the twelfth, a retired major with an umbrella shouted "Good cricket" and was silenced by the hisses of people who were afraid his enthusiasm would disturb Hagen's putting. The match ended at the 55th hole with Hagen 18 down...
...vacation in Los Angeles, made remarks; said he: "Ladies' legs are really an interesting study nowadays. They're losing their calves. Why, these high-heeled shoes they're wearing are changing completely the shape of their legs. . . . They ride in automobiles too much. So, not walking, they get shorter. And because they're getting shorter, they're wearing higher heels so they can walk beside their...
...Twiddle-dee, now that you mencken it, one with H. L. M. embroidered on his collar, and the other, G. J. N. They conversed solemnly with Alice, and tried to entertain her. But Alice declared herself bored, and immediately the two little men vanished, leaving her to walk the Primrose Path...
...game progressed rapidly up to the last half of the fourth when John Prior '29 came up and drew a walk. A. G. Whitney '29 grounded out to short, advancing Prior. W. B. Jones '28, the next man up, singled, and Prior came home scoring Harvard's first tally. F. E. Nugent '30, who was given a try in left field yesterday, followed with another hit, putting two men on base. Cutts followed with a smashing double which scored both Jones and Nugent Cutts himself came home a few minutes later to score the fourth run when J. P. Chase...