Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third spring football practice of the season yesterday, a new system of conditioning exercises was innovated by Coach Campbell. All the backfield candidates were made to run in a circle, jump every third step, roll on the ground, hop, first on one foot and then on the other, walk holding onto their ankles, turn forward and backward somersaults, and finally, run at a quick pace, bent double with arms folded...
...great trouble with this place is that it is all talk, talk; nobody is willing to listen. No sooner had I finished giving the Dean my beliefs than he attempted to answer them. Of course, the only dignified thing for me to do was to walk out of the room, which I did, leaving him quite dumbfounded...
...harems of the Turk, from which a new womanhood is to walk into a larger destiny...
...part of Marguerite Gautler, Mlle. Sorel brings her highly diverting and colorful personality, her strutful walk, her studied poses, her technical certainty, her well-managed voice. More affecting and effective is she in the part of this naughtly lady regenerated by love than as the Dona clorinde of Augier's "L'Aventurere" playing with a deeper sincerity and greater conviction. She was highly amusing in the lighter passages, and once or twice she actually gripped in emotional scenes. And her costumes, which are always half the exhibition when Mlle. Sorel appears, were not only more tasteful and beautiful...
...Provide Clod-Shoes at the Entrance. Some students derive such subtle pleasure from hearing the reading hall resound with the click-click of their hob-nails on the marble edgings that we ought not to enjoin them to walk softly, but, rather, we ought to furnish them with clod-hoppers, the more to indulge that subtle pleasure...