Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...massive moulder of mortar and manipulator of men reclined uncomfortably upon a pile of boards and twitched slightly from unavoidable rheumatism. "Besides, it's too damp in here: I'm gettin" so I can't walk I'm so tied...
When I "came to" it was "20 minutes past"?and a good five minutes' walk to the chain-store owner's office...
...Mencken may now add to his list of people who huggermug, who boob, hick and wowse, those who go abroad sensing scents to censor. Certain persons walk about Broadway with their noses in the air, suiffing ozone that is impregnated with biology, straightaway expunge the biology, and go rejoicing on their righteous way. They discover for instance, that The Virgin Man has become The Captive of Sex, and proceed to straighten out the triumverate in a manner that leaves the principles chastened and shamed, and the producers in a state of elation at the success of their little drama...
...jury went out to deliberate; the trial judge, James R. Hamilton, went home for a rest; Defendant Norris and his bodyguard took a walk over to his hotel. A long time would elapse, all thought, before the jury could untangle the splenetic arguments of the lawyers. Two hundred miles away in Fort Worth, Evangelist Norris' followers prayed industriously...
Died. Dr. Moulton K. Johnson, 55, Navy hero of first Army-Navy football game (24-0 in 1890); following a fall on an icy walk, at Lafayette...