Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
...friends credit Mrs. Roosevelt's austerity to her orphaned childhood. Her Grandmother Hall raised her at Tivoli, on the Hudson. Mrs. Roosevelt recalls that twice a day she was expected to walk up & down a road on the estate with a cane hooked under her arms behind her back. She was two and her sixth cousin Franklin was four when they first met. Franklin rode her on his back. Says she: "I was a solemn child without beauty and painfully shy and I seemed like a little old woman entirely lacking in the spontaneous joy and mirth of youth...
...engaged in painting a portrait is suddenly disturbed to find, in the palm of his hand, a surprising deformity: two human lips which engage him in a fragmentary conversation. The young man succeeds in transferring these lips to a statue of a young woman, who advises him to walk through a mirror. Having done so, the young man finds himself in the Hotel des Folies Dramatiques where, peeking through keyholes, he witnesses a horrid scene between an old lady and a child whom she is teaching to fly. When he emerges from the mirror, the young man finds himself transformed...
...speaking of the weather--I know we weren't--but it's just begun to be real cold down here--you've had cold weather a long time, haven't you?--But we nearly have to walk backwards to get anywhere...
...sounded at ten o'clock, and we were theoretically supposed to sleep until six o'clock, but often the cadets went down to the basement to study, because the lights were turned out in the rooms. We were allowed no cines but if caught cutting we, were required to "walk the area" for twenty-two hours. This was called a "month slug," and meant patrolling back and forth carrying a gun and unable to speak to anyone. A chapel cut counted as two class cuts...