Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Transradio Press Service. If UP's Karl Bickel or AP's Kent Cooper should walk into the Transradio office in Manhattan, he could plant himself in the news editor's chair, roll up his sleeves and run the show with practically no coaching. With its news editors, rewrite men and teletype operators, the place looks, sounds, smells and works like a wire service office in any U. S. city. But there is an invisible difference: The teletyped news reports flash cross-country not into newspaper offices but into 50 broadcasting stations...
...comments are never dull. Confessing his inability to make the most of sightseeing, apropos of a visit to India, he exclaims: "How did a closer acquaintance with elephants really profit me? What did I get out of it? Only that which I noted involuntarily: the elephants had a womanly walk which reminded me of Arnold Bennett...
...short walk through several doors brought the sheriff and his visitor to the dentist's room. Well equipped, it looked quite proper for the treatment of oral difficulties. Across the hall was the operating room, to which the doctor could be summoned at any time of day or night. Instruments were neatly arranged under glass, ready for immediate use. Perhaps Mr. Robart was comparing these rooms to the torture chambers of a medieval bastille when he made his statement, for it is hard to find a closer comparison for other parts of the prison...
Last week, 18 years after Floyd Odlum arrived in Manhattan, so green that he tried to walk from Grand Central Station to Wall Street (3½ mi.), Mrs. Odlum was 42, mother of two sons, sprightly wife of the head of the biggest investment trust in the U. S. but still a Westerner in speech and manner. And her husband gave her a present. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum was duly elected president of Bonwit Teller, big Manhattan smartshop...
Uncomplaining Radcliffe tells why her dances are so popular. "This is the depression. They can't take a Wellesley girl for a walk along the river and call...