Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the week I did my writing job as usual. I wasn't exactly bouncing with energy, but I not only wasn't too weak to talk, I wasn't too weak to walk half a mile to the post office and back on the sixth day. I lost five pounds...
When the clerks footed up the totals, Vice President Garner quietly announced: ''On this question the yeas are 31. The nays are 31." Several conservative Senators started to walk from the chamber, sure that they had sidetracked the Borah bill. But Mr. Garner, seizing one of his rare opportunities to be useful, halted them in their tracks by shouting: "The Chair votes 'Yea! and lays the bill before the Senate...
...backgammon in the garden of her villa at Juan-les-Pins, France, Maxine Elliott, oldtime actress-beauty, was nipped on the ankle by her pet monkey, Kiki. Furious, Queen Elliott had Jester Kiki's teeth pulled out. Next day Queen Elliott, appeased, took gory-gummed Kiki for a walk...
...park bench, has a nightmare from which he is wakened by one of his workmen, with whom he goes home to supper. They discuss the labor situation. When the efficiency expert finally takes his leave, he has sworn to stick by the men somehow. Inference is that he will walk out with them when they are discharged; more, that he will perhaps become a working Christian...
...greatest sources of inconvenience to the in the University is the large number of locked gates which confront one at every turn, especially those guarding Widener. To have to walk a half a mile out of your way each night to get at your books is inconvenient to say the least. It has occurred to me that perhaps through the columns of the CRIMSON some pressure might be brought to bear to open one of the gates leading into Widener at Plympton Street...