Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Napoleon Bonaparte, who needed great soldiers, was firmly convinced that a man would walk through hell for a ribbon to wear on his chest. So French soldiers are among the most decorated fighting men in the world. Finding that Napoleon had judged human nature right, France now gives 25 kinds of civilian decorations,* medals (and lapel ribbons) for rearing big families, turning out a good beet crop, running a business-like prison, doing an average job of teaching school (about half of all French teachers have the Palmes Académiques), putting out fires, collecting taxes...
Everything is quiet and hot. Figures across the street are walking leisurely. The leaves are still. There's no ripple on the grass. The sun is hot on the pavement. Men are wearing white shirts. It's summer! Vag eaunters across the Yard admiring the seasonal phenomenon, the gregness, the aims,--even Sever Hall. He walks slowly. There's no rush, no appointments, no assignments, not for three and a half months. He lights a cigarette, lets the smoke curl out of his mouth and hang in mid air motionless. No sir, no one could get him to walk fast...
...Full dress suits, in color, minus collar & tie. Better still, an adaptation of the bullfighter's cock-o'-the-walk costume...
...music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished, for it is disgusting in the performance of sacred music, and contrary to that solemnity which should accompany an exercise so near akin to that which will through all eternity engage the attention of those who walk in climes of bliss." Said "Singin' Billy": "I would rather have A.S.H. after my name than P-r-e-s in front...
...visitors manufactured their three runs in the first on two hits, a walk, and an error. Lee got to first safely on Art Johns' boot, Chircs strolled, and both men advanced on an infield out. Budrunas singled to center, driving in two tallies, and followed them around on Hannabury's double...